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EARLY HISTORY 



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SOUTHAMPTON, L. I. 



NEW YOKK. 



WITH GENEALOGIES. 



B^!r OEO. rSOOEKJSJ HOWELL. 



DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF OUR PIOUS 

ANCESTORS. 



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Public attention of late years has been much di- 
rected to the early history of the first settlements 
of our country, and with good reason — aside from 
local interest and the traditions and associations 
whicli will gather around families that have remained 
fixed on the soil for over two hundred years, it 
is only by knowing the civil and religious condition 
of national infancy, that one can understand the 
nation in its maturity. The historian of a village 
then simply traces one little rill to its .fountain head. 
If he does not contribute history, he contributes 
material for history. 

It would appear tliat the three oldest villages in 
the State of New York, settled by the English, are 
on the east end of Long Island ; Southampton and 
Southold settled in 1640, and East Hampton in 
1649. Of these, one only, East Hampton, has 
found a historian, unless through such notices as 
may be seen in works of a more general character. 
Materials are still existing in the Town Records, 
which, even now imperfect, cannot many years 
longer remain legible. It is mainly from these and 
other sources beyond the reach of most persons that 
these chronicles are compiled, in order that facts and 



events of interest to the community may be rescued 
from oblivion. 

The object of the writer is not to give a complete 
history of the town to the present day, but simply 
of the settlement, and to picture forth as well as 
possible our forefathers as they lived, thought and 
acted. And yet such matters of later occurrence 
as have a general interest have not been omitted. 

Great care has been taken to present perfect copies 
of the ancient instruments of writino; relating: to 
the history of the town ; but it is found by com- 
parison that the orthography of the same document 
varies considerably, whenever it is more than once 
recorded. 

Such a work will be but imperfect at best ; but 
it is hoped that some new facts of interest have 
been brought to light in this volume, and such as 
it is, it is given to the public. 

Acknowledgments are made of assistance in pre- 
paration of this work, from Thompson's and Prime's 
Histories of Long Island, History of New York, by 
J. Komeyn Brodhead, Esq., Doc. History of N. Y. 
and Colonial Hist, of N. Y. ; also, to Wm. S. Pel- 
letreau Esq., whose praiseworthy efforts to preserve 
the fast-failing documents in the Town Clerk's 
office, deserve the thanks of all sons of Southamp- 
ton. Acknowledgment also is made to Deacon 
Stephen Kose of Bridge Hampton, now in his 
eighty-sixth year, for invaluable assistance in the 
genealogical portion of this work. 



INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



PAGB. 

CHAPTER I. 

Outline of the History of Long Island. — Meager Accounts of 
the Early Settlers. — First Attempt at a Settlement at Man- 
basset, in North Hempstead 12 

CHAPTER II. 

The Settlement of Southampton and the Settlers.— List of In- 
habitants in 1649, 1657, 1683 and 1698 20 

CHAPTER III. 
Character of the Settlers 49 

CHAPTER IV. 
Civil Relations. — Pure Democracy. — Union with Connecticut. 
— With New York. — Dutch interregnum. — Again with 
New York 54 

CHAPTER V. 

During the Revolutionary War. — Occupation by the British. — 
Personal Incidents. — Colonies. — Soldiers of the Slaye- 
holders' Rebellion 69 

CHAPTER VI. 
Civil Laws. — Courts. — Decrees of Courts 84 

CHAPTER VII. 
The Church. — Ministers. — Church Edifices. — Schools 99 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Various Localities. — Residences of Settlers. — Changes of Resi- 
dence — Residences in 1864 144 

CHAPTER IX. 

Indians. — Friendly Relations with them. — Purchase of their 
Lands.— Lease of Shinnecock and the Hills. — Sale of 
Shinnecock Hills 16:^ 

CHAPTER X. 

Early Customs. — Whaling. — Burying Grounds. — Miscellaneous. 176 

CHAPTER XI. 
Births, Marriages and Deaths 200 

CHAPTER XII. 
Family Records 205 

APPENDIX. 

DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN. 

Disposall of the Vessell 310 

Indian Deed of Dec. 13, 1640 312 

Special Index 314 



THE 

EARLY HISTORY 



OF 



SOUTHAMPTON, L. 1. 



CHAPTER I. 

OUTLINE O,^ HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND-MEAGRE 
ACCOUNTS OF EARLY SETTLERS— FIRST ATTEMPT AT 
SETTLEMENT AT NORTH HEMPSTEAD. 

The Dutch who had settled on Manhattan Island 
m the early part of the seventeenth centmy, «oon 
began to barhi and oecupy on the opposite shore of 
Long Uland ; and as their population increased 
naturally pushed out their settlements to th. east 
ward on^the north and south shores of the Island. 
Thus It happened that the western part of the Island 
eame under the jurisdiction of the Dutch Govern- 
ment at New Amsterdam rmtil the surrender of New 
i ork to the English in 1664. 

BuUhe proximity of the Island tf Connecticut 
attorded some ground for the English Grown .0 .ei 
'ip a claun ro it. Accordingly Charles I. April 2^ 
1^05 r.quest.d the Corporation fu- New En-land' 



X4 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON'. 

called th. Plymonth Colony, to i.Hur their p^Ueut t.> 
-William Alexander, Earl of Sterling, for Longlsland 
and the islands adjacent. They did ho, .nd on Apnl 
90th 1637. the Earl gave power ol Attorney to 
}ames Favret to dispose of said lands. This Ircvwever 
took effect only on the east end of Long Island where 
the English suhsoquently resided. 

Ac^ahi March 12th, 1664, Charles II, granted with 
oth(^territory,LongIslandandtheIslandsa(^acent, 

to his brother James, Duke of lork ^^^d Albany^ 

In the following August, Col. Richard Nicolls,^a1 

the head of a fleet, came and obtained a surrenue) 

of New York to the crown of England, ^ow lo> 

the first time the eastern towns of the Island cam< 

under the jurisdiction of New York, Southampton 

having sent deputies to the General Court^ of Con 

necticut regularly, from 1644 to 1664. In July 

1673 New York was recovered by the Dutch an^ 

the Island followed the f\ite of the largcn^- colon^. 

Both, however, were again surrendered by theDutc 

to the English Government, Nov. 10th, 16/4 an 

Bo remained English Colonies till the war of oi 

Independence. . . ^ 

Few traces can be- found of the origmai proprn 
tors of the town prior to the settlement. There 
some reason for supposing that they came from tl 
south of England-indeed there is a tradition th 
the town itself was named in remembrance^ ol t] 
native place 6f the majority, Southampton Engh.n 
though experience has taught us that little reUan 
is to be placed on traditions unsuppe.rt.Kl by otl] 
evidence. The common statement derived from (^ 



EARLY SETTLERS. 15 

ton Mather (Magnalia) is, that between thirty and 
forty families in Lynn, Mass., findino' themselves 
sti-aitened came over to Long Island and efiected a 
settlement. In Ogilby's Hist, of America, he says, 
that by j're.'<h sufyply of people from England the 
town of Southampton was settled. Probably both 
of these statements are partially true. It is certain 
rhat most of the settlers came" from Lynn. How 
lung they remained theie is not known. Among 
the inhabitants of that place in 1(J30, were Edmund 
Farrington, Allen Breed, Daniel Howe, and John 
White. In 1637, weie also Christopher Foster, 
dohn Pierson, Thomas Halsey, Josiah Stanborough,' 
(George Welbye, Richard Wells, William Partridge 
and Philip Kneeland, (or more probably Kertland.) 
John Coo])er was made Freeman, /. e.,\admitted to 
privilege of voting, at Boston, Dec. 6, 1636 ; Chris- 
t.'pher Foster, the same, April 17, 1637 ; Edward 
llowell, the same, March 14, 1639 ; Bev. Abraham 
Pierson, arrived in America in 1639. With a few 
more which are mentioned elsewhere, these are all 
tii<' traces that can be given of the founders of 
'^outham])ton. 

The original " undertakers," eight in number, 
purchased a sloop for the transportation of their 
families and their goods for £80, of which Edward 
Howell and Daniel Howe, each contributed £15 ; 
Edmund Fan-ington, George Welbe, and Henry 
Walton each £10 ; and Josiah Stanborough, Job 
Sayre, Edmund Needham and Thomas Sayre, each 
£5. Before sailing, however, the other proprietors 
disposed of their interest in the vessel to Daniel 



16- HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

Howe, in consideration of his making three trips 
annually for two years for transportation of goods 
from Lynn to their plantation. Articles of agreement 
were drawn up and signed, in which were stated the 
plans and purposes of the Company, and their sev- 
eral shares proportioned to the amount of money by 
each contributed. These articles, as well as those 
for the "Disposall of the Vessell" were dated March 
lOtli, 1G39. April i7th, 1G40, (a montli after the 
confirmation of Lyon Gardiner's purchase of Gar- 
diners Island.) Farret, in behalf of Lord Sterling, 
made an agreement with Lieut. Howe, Edward 
Howell and others (as above) by which tlicy were 
authorized to occupy eight miles square of land in 
any part of Long Island. Tb« amount that was 
to be paid to the Earl of Sterling, as a recognition 
of his title to the land was to be estimated by the 
Hon. John Winthrop, Gnvernoi- of Massachusetts 
Colony, who fixed the amount at four bushels of 
Indian Corn, in consideration that the country was 
a wilderness, and that the natives pretended some 
claims to the land. This deed of Farrett was given 
also about a month after the disposal of the vessel 
and signing the articles of agreement since, as the 
reader will remember, at that time the year was 
reckoned to commence on the twenty-fifth of March, 
The next we hear of them, the Lynn Emigrants 
arrived in the following inonth r»f May at Manhas- 
set at the head of Cow Bay (or Sellout's Bay, as tlic 
Dutch called it.) Here they found the arms of the 
Prince of Orange erected upon a tree, and Lieut. 
Howe the leader of the expedition pulled thorn down. 



EARLY SETTLERS. 19 

thaniel Cartelya (Kertland) twerily-two years old, 
birth place and residence the same as Farrington's. 
William Barker said ; he was born in Ciucenshire 
(Lincolnshiie ?) and was twenty-four years of age. 
On May 19th they were discharged as not guilty of 
tearing down the arms of the Lords States, and set 
at liberty on " condition that they do promise to 
depart forthwith from our territory, and never to 
return to it without the Directors' express consent." 
Thus ended the first attempt at a settlement ; the 
"strollers and vagabonds" departed, and low Dutcli 
alone was spoken in that land. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE SETTLEMENT AND THE SETTLERS. 

The emigrants must have proceeded directly to 
the east end of Long Island, where they met with 
a more favorable reception ; for in a memorandum 
dated July 7th, 1640,* Farret confirms the settlers 
in actual possession of their territory, the bounda- 
ries of which are given, proving that some terms of 
agreement had already been made with the natives 
and that they were on the spot in actual possession. 

This appears to establish the fact of the priority 
of tlie settlement of Southampton as compared 
with that of Southold. In Griffin's Journal the 
settlement of the latter town is clearly stated to 
have occured in September, 1640. The local names 
given in the rnemorandum of July 7th, 1640, de- 

*Thiis Prime in Hist, of L. I. — (See the memoraudura in appendix 
to this book.) — Hut according to Col. FliRt. ot N. Y., vol. 3; pp. 21, 
22, June r2th, 16S9, James Farrett makes a conveyance of laud 
from sea to sea, between Peaconeck and Montauk, Ft., to Edward 
Howell & Co., for £400 alreadj'^ received, they having been driven 
off by thq Dutch previous to this transaction. We can understand 
all ot this but the date of the year. Most of the evidence show the 
.settlement to have been in 1640. But the date of month is probab- 
ly conect as it agrees with everytliing else. The instrument ot 
June 12tli, vaguely defines the limits, and was probably given 
before the arrival of the settlers at Southampton : that of July 7th, 
in giving local names, .Tceurately establishes the fact of actual 
occupation. — August Udth. 16:'.9. r,ord 8l'Tling conlirms this sale. 
Col. Hist as jibove. 



EARLY SETTLERS. 17 

This was on the lOtli of May, 1640. But the 
Sachem Penhawitz who had just before ceded all 
his rights to the Dutch, promptly informed Governor 
Kieft that some "foreign strollers" had arrived at 
Sellout's Bay where they were felling trees and 
building houses, and "had even hewn down the arms 
of High Mightinesses." Commissary Van Curler 
was sent to ascertain the facts, and the Sachem's 
story was found to be true. The arms of the state 
had been torn down, and in their place had been 
drawn an "unhandsome face," "all which aforesaid 
appeared strange to us, being a criminal offeut;o 
against his Majesty, and tending to the disparage- 
ment of their High Mightinesses." 

May 13th, the Council of New Amsterdam ordt;r 
Cornelius Van Tienhoren to arrest and bring before 
them the "strollers and vagabonds" of Sellout's Bay 
who had so insulted their Dutch dignities. On tho 
next day, with two officers and twenty laen, he started 
uu his mission of ejectment, and arrived at the 
clearing May 15th, finding one small house built 
and another unfinished. " They were first a.sked, 
what they were doing there ; by what power (.»r by 
whose authority they presumed to settle on our 
purchased soil, and told that they must show their 
(!ommission. Eight men, one woman and a little 
child, made answer that they intended to plant there, 
and were authorized thereunto by a Scotchman who 
had gone with their commission to Red Hill. 

Secondly they were asked, for what reason did 
they throw down their High Mightinesses' Arms and 
set up a fool's face in the stead. To which some 



18 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

answered ; the escutcheon was cut down by a ptrsoii 
wliD is not present ; another answered, .such was 
(lone in their presence by order of a Scotchman, 
(James Farrett ; and he and Lieut. Howe were then 
at Red Hill — wherever that was.*) Hereujton six 
men were brought to Fort Amsterdam, leaving two 
men, and one woman and a child on the ground, to 
take care of their goods ; they arrived on the 15th 
of May." 

At the subsequent examination the following 
tacts appeared. They went to Long Island to 
settle, from Lynn, Mass., and others were to follow. 
They came under authority of James Farret with 
consent of Gov. Winthrop of Mass. Bay Colony. 
It was intended to bring twenty families, and 
''many more would come if the land was good." 
They should have lived free under their own laws, 
and would have been obedient to whomsoever was 
lord of the land Job Sayre on examination, said ; 
he was born in Bretfordshire, (probably Bedfordshire 
= — he was examined through a Dutch interpreter,) 
was twenty-eight years old, and had resided in 
Lynn, Mass. George Welbye said ; he was born in 
NorthamptoDshire, was twenty-five years old, and 
resided in Lynn, John Farrington said ; he was 
born in Bockingh^mshire (Buckinghamshire) was 
twenty-four years old, and lived in Lynn. Philip 
Cartelyn (Kertland) twenty-six years old, and Na- 

* Iq the autobiography of Dr. Lyman Beecher, it is said that 
amonpf the Dutch, New Haven, Ct., was Ivnown by the name of 
Red Mount, from the appearance ot East and West Rocks from the 
eoaFt or harbor. This probably is the place indicated by 't?ed Hill 
in the narrative. 



THE SETTLEMENT. 21 

monstrate uot only a knowledge gathered from 
actual occupation, but an amicable (though 
probably a verbal) arrangement with the natives for 
udmitting the colonists within their territory. 
Besides this, can any one tell what the Cow Bay 
settlers could have been about after their expulsion 
from Manhasset in the latter part of May, if they 
did not come immediately, or at least after a confer- 
t^nce with their fi-iends at Lynn, to the shores of 
vSouthampton ? Everything goes to show a settle- 
ment having been effected here in June, 1640, thus 
making it the first town settled by the English in 
the State of New York. The language of the ac- 
count of the formation of the Southampton Church 
at Lynn, confirms this, " composed of individuals 
who had emigrated from this place and settled 
at Southampton." Sailing up the Peconic Bay, 
tht'y landed at what is now called North Sea, a little 
hamlet about three miles from the village of South- • 
ampton, whence they " took up their march through 
the woods" to find a place for their new homes. It 
was a perilous undei'taking to venture with their 
wives and little ones into a wilderness, hemmed in on 
two sides by water, and on the other two by savage 
tribes. Like their brethren of Plymouth, however, 
they were brave men and christians, resolved on doing 
their part towards forming an empire for freedom 
and Christianity. 

The Indians whom they found here proved to be 

friendly, and released to the settlers sufficient land 

for their necessities in " consideration of sixteen 

coates already received, and also three score bushels 

3 



22 HISTORY or SOUTHAMPTON. 

of Indian corne to be paid upon lawful demand the 
last of September, which shall be in the year 1641, 
and further in consideration that they above named 
Eng-lish shall defend us the said Indians from the 
unjust violence of whatever Indians shall illegally 
assail us." The date of this deed, is December 13, 
1640. Two additional purchases from the natives 
were afterwards effected extending considerably the 
limits of the town, and finally when a new genera- 
tion of Indians were causing trouble, as they saw their 
old hunting grounds melt away, the colony in order to 
preserve peace, again bought the whole township of 
them for twenty poundi^, for which a deed was given 
of date Aug. 16th, 1703. The first of these two 
additional purchases, called the Quogue purchase is 
not found on record in the Town Clerk's office. But 
the second known by the name of Topping's pur- 
chase, is recorded as having been sold to Thomas 
Topping nnd his heirs forever, April 10th, 1662, 
for twenty fathoms of wami)um by Weany, (Sunk 
Squa) Anabackus, Jackanapes, Cobish, Toquobin, 
and Wetaugom, all Schinnecocks except Weany, the 
widow of the Montauk Chief, The purchase ran 
from ^iamuck or Canoe Place westward to Seatuck 
and thence northward to the head of Peconic Bay. 
Again Sept. 17th, 1666, a number of Indians claim- 
ing the right to Topping's purchase, gave a deed of 
sale of the same to the "Townsmen of Southampton" 
for sucli consideration as Gov. Nicoll shall determine. 
It is quite certain that the first attempt at a 
settlement here w^as in a place now called the Old 
Town, about three-quarters of a mile from the main 



THE SETTLEMENT. 23 

street of the present village. Here they remained 
for about eight years as appears from the following 
orders. 

June 11th, 1647, ordered by the General Court 
that "the towne is to be divided into fortie house 
lots, some biger, some less." 

" This instant, (the 23d of March) 1648, it is 
ordered by the tive men appoynted for towne affaires 
that the whole towne shall be called together on the 
second day next, at the setting of the sunne, to con- 
sider of a town plot that shall be then and there 
presented to them, and to determine concerning ye 
said plot or some other that may be presented by 
any other man's advice, and also to consider of such 
home accomadations as may be most suitable to ye 
comfort, peace and welfare of tliis plantation as 
touching ye proportion to every man in his taking 
up according to his valuation, and that tliere be men 
appointed forwith to divide the same, and this to 
put in execution the order above written." 

March 27 th, 1648. three; acres tor a home lot was 
settled upon as to the proportion to a fifty right. 

The main street to this day retains the divisions 
then made of house lots of three acres, though in the 
changes of two centuries some of the old landmarks 
have been removed. Here then at last they find 
])erraanent homes after all their wanderings. The 
articles of agreement entered into before their depar- 
ture from Lynn show that that they formed a joint 
stock company, owning the lanl as tenants in com- 
mon until it was set a])art according to the regulations 
of the company to individual occupation. Each man 



24 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

was entitled to a house lot of four acres, (afterwards 
changed to three acres,) twelve acres for cultivation, 
and ahout thirty-four acres of meadow and upland, 
together Avith a certain number of shares or rights in 
the undivided common land, according to the amount 
of money he had disbursed towards the expenses of 
the settlement, and the purchase of the town. These 
were called Proprietor's Rights, and were handed 
down with inherited estate from fatlier to son. There 
is no question but the land of tlie town was from the 
first, and always down to the present time, owned in 
two distinct modes or tenures — first, as divided into 
certain lots, whether homesteads, meadows, uplands, 
arable lands or wood-lands ; and secondly, the re- 
mainder of the undivided lands within the limits of 
the town was owned by the proprietors, their heirs, 
assigns or successors in joint tenantry. Latterly it 
became a question whether under the patent of Gov. 
Doujiran, all of the inhabitants of the town had not 
each an equal right in the undivided lands of the 
town. Tlie records preserve this distinction of ten- 
ure, and upon the coming of a stranger into the place, 
it appears that he simply owned what he bought — a 
purchased freehold estate by no means entitled him 
to any share or right in the undivided land of the 
town. He might purchase a proprietor right, but 
the purchase itself proves the distinction of tenure. 
Such is the historical view of this question — the legal 
merits of which must be decided by the coTuts. 

From the following extract from the Town Re- 
cords, it will ap])ear there was some difficulty with 
the Indians concerning the title of the colony to 
the lands of the town. 



THE SETTLEMENT. 25 

At a town meetino- held in Southampton, the 23d 
day of November, 1686, — it is agreed upon by major 
vote of the town that Major John Howell shall go to 
New York about the present allair of making good 
our title to our lands called into question at Shinne- 
cock, and Henry Ludlaru is likewise chosen to wait 
upon him. 

At the same meeting it is ordered that the paten- 
tees concerned in our patent, shall make a conveyance 
of the land held within our township to the persons 
respectively, according to the interest of allotment of 
hundred and fifties, or fifties when they hold in this 
town. 

Also, there are chosen six men to be a committee 
in behalf of the men, to give Major Howell his 
instructions, and also to attend Col. Young's when 
he comes to hear the Indians acknowledge our deed ; 
and the men so chosen are Mr. Edward Howell, 
Henry Pierson, Matthew Howell, Thomas Cooper, 
Obadiah Rogers, and Joseph Pierson. 

The immediate result of this order was the obtain- 
ing of Gov. Dougan's Patent, dated Dec. 6th, 1686, 
which is given in the appendix. So far as the records 
show, this step appeared to quiet the Indians until 
1703, when, as before narratcsd, they united in con- 
veying the whole toAvnship again to the Colonists. 

But besides this trouble with the Indians which is 
alluded to in the recoids above rather indefinitely, 
Gov. Uougan issued an order that the towns on the 
east end of Long Island should take out a patent 
from himself. Against this order the people of 
Southampton protested on the ground that they were 



26 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

living in peace and qniet possession of their lands 
under a patent already given h\ the Governor of the 
Colony of New York, and that another patent was 
siiperflnous. However, to keep the peace, and pre- 
vent trouble and litigation, they sent their committee 
as before stated to obtain their patent. It is not 
easy to discover any good reason why Gov. Dougan 
should issue such an order to these towns at that late 
day, unless to make a show of his official authority. 
As to the locality of the settlement, the mass of 
evidence goes to show it was for the first few years 
in the village alone. I concur with the opinion of Mr. 
Wm. S. Pelletreau, who says on this point ; notwith- 
standing the common impression upon the subject, 
ihat settlements Avas begun simultaneously at North 
Sea, Sagabonack and Southampton, it is certain such 
was not the case ; nor is ifc at all probable that in the 
beginning of the settlement and at a time when there 
were but few families, and these in constant fear of the 
Indians, they would venture to scatter their numbers 
so widely. The first permanent one, after the one at 
Southampton, was at North Sea in 1647, when John 
Ogden received permission from the town to settle 
there with six families, who were to have 321 acres 
of land, and -were to form a community by them- 
selves upon certain conditions agreed upon. No set- 
tlement appears to have been made at Sagabonack 
till some time after this, when various persons 
owning land there began to build. In 1670, there 
was quite a settlement upon the east side of Saga- 
bonack pond, (whence the present village of Sagg 
derives its name,) and along the shores of Mecox Bay. 



THE SETTLEMENT. 27 

However, it would appear from the following order 
that North Sea was not settled till 1649. 

" Feb. 21, 1649. It is granted by the Major parte 
of this towne that Mr. Ogden and his company sliall 
have Cow Neck and JeiFery Neck for there owny 
pi'oper rights ; also, that they shall have for their 
planting land within or without ye said necks three 
hundred 24 acres of said land provided they sufficiently 
fence it and upon the same grant they are to have 
all the meadow betwixt the brook by the Sachem 
Stoake and Hogneck Spring for there proper Right 
provided it bee not above A mile from ye side, the 
North Sea : under these conditions following : first, 
that the must pay to all Common Rates with the 
towne after ye rate of nine hundred pounds according 
to the takeings up of those men that dwell in the 
towne. 21y that Hee shall place there six familyes 
or more that shall there Live and have there abode. 
Sly that in case the whole bounds of the towne come 
to bee stinted for Cattill, then the must be stinted 
fjr sumer-feed as they arc that live at ye towne by 
ye Same Rule in Common Rates as aforesaid is 
alsoe included the misters means." 

In 1679, Meacox is spoken of as " lately layed" 
out to the inhabitants, and in 1680, Hogneck to be 
soon divided. 

The names of the eight original " undertakers" 
are as follows : Edward Howell, Edmond Farrington, 
Edmund Needham, Thomas Sayre, Josiah Stan- 
borough, George Welbe, Henry Walton, Job Sayi-e, 
and, if we include the Captain of the Vessel, Daniel 
How, making nine. To these were added eleven 



28 HISTORY OF .SOUTIIAMi'TON. 

other heads of families bef(»]-c the company departed 
from Lynn, viz : John Cooper, Allen Breed, William 
V Harker,"^ Thomas Halsey, - Thomas Newell, John 
Farrington, Richard Odell, Philip Kyrtland, Natha- 
niel Kirtland, Thomas Farrington, and Thomas 
Terry. 

Diirinfir the next few years, the setlement was 
further increase d by the coming of Richard Barrett, 
William Barker, William Barnes, John Bishop, 
Robert Bond, (1643,) John Bostuiok, Thomas Bur- 
nett, Ellis Cook, John Covy, (1643) Samuel Dayton, 
Falk Davis, Christopher Foster, John Gosmer, 
Thomas Goldsmith, James Hampton, John Hand, 
James Herrick, Thonicis Hildreth, John Jagger, 
John Jennings, John Jessu}), Anthony Ludlam, 
John Lum or Loom, Robert Merwin, Richard Mills, 
John Moore, William Mulfurd, Robert Morris, John 
Oldfields, John Ogden, Henry Pierson, Richard Post, 
"^ Joseph Raynor, William Rogers, Robert Rose, Rich- 
ard Smyth, Richard Stratton, Thomas Talmage, 
Thomas Topping, William Wells, (1643,) John 
White, Isaac Willman, and John Woodruff. 

Many of these, however, stayed but a short time. 
The follov/ing is a list of families mentioned above, 
now extinct, or not residing in Southampton ; Bar- 
ker, Barnes, Barrett, Bond, Bostuick, Breed, Covy, 
Davis, Dayton, Farrington, Goldsmith, Gosmer, 
Hampton, Hand, Harker, How, Kyrtland, Lum, 
Mills, Merwin, Moore, Mulford, Newell, Norris, 
Odell, Ogden, Oldfields, Smyth, Stratton, Talmage, 
Walton, Welbe, Wells and Willman. 



THE SETTLEUS. 



29 



The two tbllowing lists are tbuiul in Liber 
xA, No. 1, "A List of the ffreemeii inliabitin^- 
The Towne of Southampton. March ye 8th, 
1649 : " * 



Edward Howell. (tcuI. 
Johu Gosmer, (rem. 
John Moore, 
Richard Odell. Gent. 
• Thomas Halsey. _^--' 
.fohi) Howell, 
William Browiit*. 
John Cooper, 



Thomas Snyres. 
Job Sayres. 
Edward .Tohn«s. 
Josiah Stanborough. 
Thomas Talmage. 
IJiohard Smith, 
b'ichard Harrett. 
John White. 



A list of all the townsmen, May the 10th. 1649. 



I. Mr. [Edward] Howell. 

'J. Mr. [John] Gosmer. 
SJ. Mr. [Thurston] Ray nor. 

■1. Mr. [Richard] Oddl. 
^."). Thomas Halsey, 

ti. John Howell. 

7. John Cooper. 

8. Thomas Cooper. 

9. Thomas Sayer, 
10. Jobe Sayer, 
U. Edward Joaes. 

12. Josiah Stauborough. 

13. Thomas Talmagc 

14. Samuell Daytou. 

15. Richard Smyth. 



Iti, William Rogers, 

17. William Browne, 

18. Robert Merwin. 

19. Thomas \'ayl«, 
::<». Rii'hard Poste, 

21. Thomas Hildreth. 

22. Henry Peartton, 

23. John White, 
24 Ellis Cooke, 
Ih. Isake Willmaa, 

26. Richard Barlett, 

27. Seorge Wode, 

28. Thomas Burnetl. 

29. .John Jesepp. 



This list appears to inclutie only the heads 
of families, and probably those only who payed 
taxes on real estate. ^ 



* We have sturliouslv copipri tin^ olrt lisf; in each of the fbUowine " Vnrhotim 
■t LiHerati'm." 



30 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



LIST OF INHABIT A>'T.S IN l(i)07. 

This is IbiiiHl in the Town Records and be- 
gins at the south end of the town on the east 
side of the Main Stieet. and ooes north to the 
end, — then retui-niui^ southwards on the west 
side, and finalh' talviiii»- the eastern men and 
those of Nortli Sea. 



"1. ,Tos<>iih Raiuer. 

-il. Richard Howell, 
- ;■>. Christopher Foster, 
4. -lo^cph Foster, 
f>. Edward Howell, 
fi. John Jessiip, 

7. Thomas Goldsmith. 

8. Richard Barreti, 
II. Thomas Topplnt;, 

i(t. James Hevrick. 
U. Isaac Willman, 
^^2. Ensign (Zenibhuhel) 
Philips. 
i;>. Henry Pierstm. 
14. Obadiah Roaers, 
I.i. Lieut. (Joseph) Post. 

16. Ttionuis Burnett; 

17. Jo. Woodruff. 

18. John Foster, 

Ivt. Jonas Bow re, (or 
Bower) 

20. Kobert Wool lev, 

21. Mr. (James) Hiiinplou 

22. Joshua Barnes, 

23. Jolni Bishop. 



( West .S7*. Main St.,) 
24. Daniel Sayre, 
2o. Francis Sayre, 
2(». Mr. Lauji-hton, 

27. .fohn Jagger, 

28. William RuBsell. 

29. Samnel Johnes, 
'50. Isaac Halsey. ^ 

( Up the Bill.) 
31. Ben. Davi-. 
?,t. (3ornelins Voncke, 
S3. John Cooper. 
i^ We»t Ssitlc. ilnin Street agarn) 
31. John White, 
3.5. Tiiomas Cooper, 

36. Thomas Sayi-e, 

37. Edmund Howell, 

38. Mr. Fordham, ( Rev. 

Robert) 

39. Joseph Fordham, 

40. Mr. John Howell. 

41. Thomas Halsey, . 
t2. Jonatham Raynor. 

Eiixi'vn Men. 
43. Thomas Halsev. Jr. 



•rnE SK'l'TI.Kl^ 



31 



■Mr. Benjamin Foster. 

45. Henry liudlam, 

46. Anthony Lndlam. 

47. Ellis Cooke, 

48. Arthur Howell. 

49. John Topping, 

50. Peregernie Stanbr<)iij;h 

51. Josiah Stanbrough. 
(^Xcn-th Sm Men.) 

52. John Rose. 

53. Christopher Luptou. 



■>4. George Harriw, 

55. Richard Smith. 

56. Charles Stiermy, 

57. Sanniel Clarke, 

58. Thomas Shaw, 

59. Ben. Haines, 

60. Mr. Jennings. 
<>1. John Davis. 



Note. — It is quite possible that 
Thomas Halsey, Jr., should complete 
the list of men on west side of Main 
St root. 



After laying out the land in Sagg. or 8aga- 
bonack as it was called, into forty-one lots, the}- 
vvere taken up by the proprietors according to 
their several interests in the undivided land 
as follows by the Record. 

SAGABONACK DIVISION. FF.B., 1654. 

1. Richard Barret, 

2. Thomas Savi*e. 



3. Mr. ffordham, 

4. Mr. Odell, 

5. Mr. Johnes. 

6. John White, 

7. Obadiah Rogi^rs, 

8. Edward Howell, 100, 

and Mrs. Stanborough 

in Right of Thoma.^ 

Post, a fifty. 
0. Jo.?hua Barnes 100, nnd 

John Bishop, a fifty. 
10. John Lum 100, and Mr. 

Edward Howell. 

lifty, 
U. John Je.ssup 100. :uid 

•folin Cooper. Jr.. fiTly. 



12. Wm Rogers 100, uud 
Bartho. Smith fitly. 

13. Thomas Halsey. 

It. EUi? Cooke 100, John 

Jagger fifty. 
I.i. Joseph Rainer 100 Mr. 

Rainer fifty. 

16. Thomas Biu'uett 100, 
John Howell fifty. 

17. Geo. Wood 100, Widow 

Briggs fifty. 
If^- Mr. ftordham, 

19. Mr. Smith. 

20. John Howell. 
Jl. Mr Rainer. 

■11. Thomas Hildreth 100, 
Mr. Hampton fifty. 



32 



HISTOKY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



23. Isack Willmaa. Wil- 
liam Paine. 

24. Heui'y PiersoH, 

25. Richard Post Umi. Tho. 
Sayre fifty. 

26. Tho. Goldsmith lOO. 
John Oldfield fifty. 

27. Christopher ttoster. 

28. Thos. Nallsey, 

29. Jouas Wood. 

30. John ("ooper. Sfii. 



M. Mr. ffoild. Isack Will- 
man. 

32. Sam : Dayton, 

33. Mr. StanhoriMigli. 

34) ,. • 

"..-■ - Captaine loppmtr. 

36. Thomas Cooper' 

^J- j- Mr. Howoll. 

39 ) 

"in' ^ M'' John Coopt-r. 

1 1. Mr. (riiMiner •"- Jonax 
llower for the oth.?r '2 . 



A LIST OF INHABITANTS OK XOKTH SEA, 166S. 

John Jennings, Richard .Smith, Deborah Scott, Samnel Clarke. 
Christopher Lupton, John Davis. George Harris. .John Rost:, 
Thomas Shaw and Benjamin Hain««. 

INHABITANTS OF NORTH SEA IN 1687. 

The following list of inhabitants of" Nortli 
Sea in 1687, is taken from the Town Records. 

Samuel Clarke, Renjamiu Haynes, John Rose, Joseph Lupton, 
John Davis. Thomas Shaw. Richard Smith, Jecouiah SLiutt, John 
Rose, Jr., G<'or3re Harris. Jame> White and Samuel Cooper. 

'* A list of ye lnhal)itants of ye Tonne of 
Southampton, old and young Christians and 
Hethen ftieeinen and servants, white and 
black. Anno. 1698." 



From Doc. Hist.. New York, Vol. 1, p. 665. 

1 William Jeuuiugs. 

2 Samuel Jennings. 
'i Btsnj'u Haines, 



I Benj'ii Haiut's. Jr. 



v") John Haines. 

G James Haine>. .Ir. 

7 Thomas .Shaw, 

8 David Iraiic-s. 



THE SETTLERS. 



33 



9 Frances Shaw, 

10 John Shaw, 

11 Samuel! Clark,' 

12 Samuell Clark. Jr. 

13 Elish Clark, 

14 Eliphalett Clark. 

15 Clark, 

16 Clark, 

17 Jechamiah Scott, 

18 John Scott, 

19 George Haris, 

20 George Haris, Jr. 

21 Joseph Smith, 

22 Will Smith, 

23 Thomas Smith, 

24 Abiell Davis, 

25 Balhariah Davis, 
20 John Davis, Jr. 

27 Elclad Davis, 

28 John Davis, . 

29 Thomas Lupton, 

30 Joseph Lupton, 

31 Richard Minthorn, 

32 Jeremiah Jager, 

33 Jeremiah Jager, Jr. 

34 John Jager, Jr. 
3.5 John Erie. 

3C David Erie, 

37 Samuel Cooper, 

38 James White, 
30 Ichabod Cooper, 

40 Peter White, 

41 James Cooper, 

42 James Cooper. Jr. 
4 3 John Cooper. 

5 



44 Nathan Cooper, 

45 Abraham Cooper, 
4G John Reeves, 

47 John Reeves, Jr. 

48 Thomas Reeves, 

49 Gersham Culver, 

50 Jeremiah Culver, 

51 David Culver, 

52 Jonathan Culver, 

53 Moses Culver. 

54 Nahum Culver, 

55 John Eibhope, Jr. 

56 Joseph Poast, 

57 Will Mason, 

58 John Poastt, 
50 Richard Poas!, 
CO Thomas Sayre, 
CI Will ffoster, 

1^ C2 Charles Toppinp^. 
G3 ffrancis Sayre. 
04 Ichabold Sayre, 
C5 Caleb Sayre. 
00 Caleb Gilbord, 
67 Daniell Sayre, 

08 Ejjhraim Sayre, 

09 Nathan Sayre, 
TO John P>ishop, 

71 Samuell Bishope, 

72 Josiah Bishope, 

73 John Bishope, 
7 ! Joshew Barns, 
75 Raniuoll Barns, 
70 Robert Wooly. 

77 .Fuhn Wooly. 

78 Wooly .Joseph. 



34 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



7!) Isaac Bower, 

80 .lonah Bower, 

81 David Piower, 

82 Daniel Bower, 

83 John foster, 

84 John Foster. .Jr. 

85 David fl'oster, 

8G .Jonatham Ibstor. 

87 .fohu fioster, Terts, 

88 Jermiah foster, 
8t) .Joseph Hildreth, 

90 Joseph Hildreth. .Tr. 

91 Nathan Hildreth. 

92 Isaak Hildreth, 

9.3 Bphraim Hildreth, 
94 Daniel Hildreth. 
9.") .louathau Hildretli^ 
'j(! .John Woodriife, 

97 Sam'll Woodriife, 

98 Joseph Woodriife, 

99 Benj'n woodriife. 

100 Nathani woodriife. 

101 .lojiathan woodiufe. 

102 Isaac woodrufe, 
41 OS John Burnat. 

101 Samnl Butler, 
105 Gidian Buller. 
IOC Nathaniell P.titler, 

107 i )ljedia Itog-s-er.s, 

108 Ohadiali Jolui.son. 

109 Ensii Joseph Peirson, 

110 Ilemy Peirson. 

111 Joseph Peirson, 

112 Ephraim Peir,-<on, 
]\?> Ram'll Ppir«nn. 



114 Thomas Parviiie, 
11.') Thomas Pervine, Jr. 
lie Lift Thomas Stephens 

117 Isaack Willman. 

118 James Willman, 

119 Darnell Davis, 

120 Will. Hericke, 

121 Will. Herieke, Jr. 

122 John Herick, 

123 Herick, 

124 Thomas Hericke, 

125 Ropert Patin, 

126 Ephraim Toppinoj, 

127 Thomas Toping, 

128 Thomas Toping. 

129 Mr. William Barker, 
Esq., 

130 Mr. .John Wiek, 

131 .Job Wick, 

1 32 Arther Davis, 

133 John Caruitli. 

134 Joseph Howell. 

135 Zebdlun Howell, 

136 Joseph Howell, Jr. 

137 James Howell. 

138 John Ware, 

139 .laeob Ware. 
HO John Ware, Jr. 

141 .lohn Je.-snp. 

142 Isaac .Jessnp, 

143 Jer : Jessup, 
141 Henry Jessnp. 
14-5 Thomas Jes.snp, 

14G Mr. Edward Howell, 
117 Pamuel How( 11, 



tht: rettt.f.r'?. 



3,5 



148 Jonah Hovrell, 

149 Edward Howell, . I r. 
1;)0 Benj'ii Howell, 

151 Tho: Howell, 
]j2 Joseph foster, 

153 Christopher ffostor, 

154 Joseph foster. 

155 Daniell ifoster, 

156 nathan ffoster. 
159 John Howell, 

158 Manassa Kempton, 

159 Richard Howell, 
1(50 Richard Howell, jr. 

161 iiezechia Howell, 

162 Edward Howell, 

163 Ohadiah Howell, 

164 Chris: Howell, 

165 Joseph Goodale, 

166 Jonathan Goodale, 

167 Joseph Goodale. 

168 Will Goodale, 
16!) Beuj'!i Marshall, 

170 Jonathan Raynor, 

171 Jonatlian Raynor, jr. 

172 Richard Wood, 

173 Isaac Halsey, 

174 Ephraini Halsey. 

175 Nathaniel Howell. 

176 Nehemiah Howell, 

177 Henry Howell, 

178 Ensn Joseph ffordhani, 

179 Joseph ttbrdham,jr. 

180 ffellatie ffordhani, 

181 John Willman, 

182 Mr. Jonah fordham. 



183 Jonah fordliam, jr. 

184 Mr. Joseph Whitin, 

185 Samuel Whitin, 

186 .Joseph Whitin. jr. 

187 Beuj'n Whitin, 

188 V/ill Blyeth. 

189 Benj'n Hildreth, 
r.!0 JobSayre, 

191 Benj'n Sayre, 

192 JohnMaltley. 

193 Ephrm Whit, 

194 Stephen White, 

195 Charles White, 

196 Isaac Halsey, 

197 Isaac Halsey, jr. 

198 Isaac Halsey. Terts, 

199 Joshua Halsey, 

200 Thomas Halsey, 

201 Sanmell Halsey, 

202 Samuell Johnes. 

203 Samuell Johnes, ji*. 

204 nathan Howell, 

205 Israel Howell, 

206 Ezekicl Howell, 

207 John Jager. 

208 John .Tager. jr. 

209 Samuell Jagor, 

210 Jonathan Jagger, 

211 Benj'ra Jager, 

212 Josiah Howell, 

213 Daniell Howell. 

214 Tiraith: Hileyrd, 

215 Thomas Hongson, 

216 John Mowbry, 

217 Anning Mowbrv. 



36 



IIISTOrvY OF HOUTHAMrTON'. 



218 Samuell Clark. 


252 Isaac ifoster, 


210 Jeraiiah Clark. 


253 Nathanel Hasey, 


220 Charles Clark. 


254 Jonnathan Howell. 


221 Will Clark. 


255 Jonathan Howell jr 


222 Richard Rounesfifld, 


25G Irae Howell, 


223 Ricliard Rounwfieia. 


257 David Howell, 


224 David Howell, 


258 Josiah Halsey, 


225 John Rayne. 


259 Josiah Halsey, jr. 


22C Ephraim Howell, 


260 Jonathan Halsey, 


227 Epliraim Howell, 


2G1 Benj'n ffoster, jr., 


228 Samuell Howell, 


202 Henry Ludlani, 


229 Isaac Rayner, 


2C3 Mill Ludlam, 


230 Daniell Halsey, 


264 Henry Ludlam. jr. 


231 Richard Halsey, 


265 Jeremiah Ludlow, 


232 Daniell Hallsey, jr. 


2G6 Aibiell Cook, 


233 Lift. Abraham Howell 


267 Abiel Cook, jr. 


234 Abraham Howell, 


268 Josiah Cooke, 


235 Charles Howell, 


209 Thomas Rose, 


236 Phillip Howell, 


270 Israeli Rose, 


237 Ebenezer Howoll, 


271 Humphrey Huse, 


238 John Sayre, 


272 John Parker, 


23!) John Sayre, 


273 Abner Huse, 


240 Thomas Sayre. 


274 William Rose, 


•^ 241 Lott Burnot, 


275 Uriah Huse, 


"■'242 Joseph Burnett, 


276 John Masen, 


-243 David Burnott, 


277 Jedadia Huse. 


' 244 Nathan Bnniott. 


278 James ffoster, 


■'245 Jonathan Burnot, 


279 John Huse, 


- 240 Samiel Burnot, 


280 David Halsey, 


-247 Isaac Burnott, 


281 Abraham Haley, 


248 Thomas ffoster. 


282 David Rose, 


249 Eenj'n ffoster. 


283 James Rose, 


250 David ffoster. 


284 David Rose, jr. 


251 Jonathan fibster, 


285 Anthony Lndlom, 



THE SETT1.KR8. 



37 



286 Jame>- Ueiick. 

287 Aron Bnrnots, 

288 Aaron Burnott, Jr. 

289 moses Barnat, 

290 Jonah Rogers. 

291 Jonah Kon;ers, 

292 Rogers, 

293 James Haines, 

294 Samuell Haiaes, 

295 Ellis Cook, 

296 Charles fordhaiu, 

297 John Cook, 

298 John Cook. Jr. 

299 Ellias Cooke, 

300 Obadia Cook, 

301 Elijah Cook. 

302 Ensn John Lupton, 

303 Chrifitopher Lupton, 

304 Benj'n lupton. 

305 .Sitmuell Loome. 
300 Mathew Loome, 

307 Samuell Loome, 

308 Isaac Mills. 

309 Isaac Mills, Jr. 

310 Thomas Cooper. 

311 Thomas Cooper, Jr. 

312 Jonathan Miles, 

313 Richard Cooper, 

314 Joseph Moore, 

315 Joseph more, 

316 Benj'n More, 

317 Elisha Howell. 

318 Lemuell Howell, 

319 Martine Rose, 



320 Jacob Wood, 

321 Lenard Hasy. 

322 William Tarbill, 

323 Will Tarbill, .Jr. 

324 John Michill, 

325 John Michill, Jr. 

326 Jermiah Halsey, 

327 Jere : Halsey. .Ir. 

328 Benony Nutton, 

329 Benj'n Nuton, 

330 Isaac Nuton, 

331 Jonathan Nuton, 

332 John Nuton. 
.133 James Hildrelh, 
334 James HiMreth, Jr. 
33.'} Joshua Hildreth, 

336 Ezekill Sauford, 

337 Ezekill Sanford, Jr. 

338 Thomas Sanford, 

339 Samuell Barbur, 

340 Jonathan Strickling, 

341 Nathaaiell Resco, Jr. 

342 Josiah Hand, 

343 Natha : Resco, 

344 Amij. Resco, 

345 Peregrin Stanbrough, 
340 James Stanbrough, 

347 Doct. Nath. Wade, 

348 Simon Wade, 

349 Alexander Wilmot, 

350 Joseph Wickhara. 

351 Joseph Wickham, Jr. 

352 Thomas Diamond, 

.353 Capt. Elnatljan Topp- 
iner- 



38 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



354 Stephen Toppiu^. 


386 Daniell Sayre, Terts. 


3r>5 Sillvanna Topping', 


.",87 Dan. Bnrnot, 


3.56 Edward Petty, 


.'.88 Ichabod Bnrnot, 


3.57 Ellnathan Petty. 


3S9 Dan Bnrnot. Jr. 


3.58 Edward Pety. .Ir. 
359 Jo.siah Topping. 




The number of Male Chris- 


360 Josiah Topping. .Ir. 


tian?. 389. 


361 Hezekia Topping, 




362 Robert Norif. 

363 Robert Noris Jr. 

364 Oliver Noris, 

36.5 Mr. Ebenezer White. 
366 Elnath White, 


FPEAMALES. 

1 Ann Peirkins, 

2 Hannah Haines, 
'.', Lidia Haines, 


367 Lift. Coll.- Henry Peir- 


4 mary Haines, 


Ron, 


.5 mary Shaw, 


368 John Peirson. 


ft Susanah Shaw, 


369 David Peirson. 


7 Jeane Shaw, 


370 TheophiluB Peir.«on, 


8 Sarah Clark, 


371 Abraham Peirson. 


f) mary Clark, 


372 Josiah Peirson, 


10 Ester Clark, 


373 Beuuony flint, 


1 1 Sarah Clark, 


374 John fflint. 


1 2 mary Scott, 


375 John Morehouse, 


13 Sarah Hans, 


376 Joha Morehouse, Jr. 


1 1 Eunice Haris, 


377 Peter Noris, 


1 1 Mary Haris, 


378 Lift. Theophilus How- 


1<; Mary Davis, 


ell, 


17 Mary Lupton, 


379 Theoph : Howell, Jr. 


IS mary lupton, 


380 Cilley [Elihu?] How- 


r.t Hanah luptons, 


ell. 


20 abigaill luptons, 


381 Theoder Peirson, 


21 Abigaill Rose, 


382 Theoder Peirson, 


22 Hanah Rose, 


383 John Stanbrough, 


23 abigaile Rose. Jr. 


384 John Stanbrough, Jr. 


24 Sarah Rose, 


385 Daniell Sayre, Jr. 


2."t Hanah Rose, 



THE SETTLEKS. 



39 



26 Martha Rose, 

27 debro Rose, 

28 Han ah Jager, 

29 Sarah Jager' 

30 Hanah Jager, 

31 Elizabeth Davis, 

32 Mahitable DaviR. 

33 Jager, 

34 mary Erie. 

35 Mary Cooper, 

36 Sarah Cooper, 

37 Mary Cooper, Jr. 

38 Elizabeth Cooper. 

39 Elizabeth Cooper. Jr. 

40 .Jerush Coo»pr, 

41 Phebe Cooper, 

42 Elisabeth Cooper, Jr. 

43 Johana Cooper, 

44 mahitable Cooper, 

45 mary Culver. 

46 mary Culver. Jr. 

47 Rachell Reeves, 

48 Lidia Bishop, 

49 Abigaile Bishop, 

50 marey Bishop, 

51 Eanis Bishop. 

52 Sarah Poast, 

53 Afary Poast, 

54 Mary Poaat, Jr. 

55 Patience Sayere, 

56 mary Davis, 

57 Sarah Sayre, 

58 mary Sayre, 
.")9 mary Sayr*', 



60 An Halsey. 

61 Abigaile Reeves, 

62 Ellisabeth gilbord, 

63 Cethia Gilbord, 

64 mary Gilbord. 

65 Hanah Sayre, 

66 Mary Bishop, 

^17 Susanah Bishope, 

68 Susanah Bishop, Jr. 

69 Sarah Bishop, 
7H Mary Bishop, 

71 Patience Barns, 

72 Sarah Barns, 

73 Ann Wooly. 

74 Ann Wooly. 

75 Eli-sabeth Wooly, 

76 Hanah wooly, 

77 Phebe wooly, 

78 mary wooly, 

79 Navae Travely, 
SO Husanah Boswick, 

81 Ruth bower, 

82 Mahitabell Bower, 
f^3 Sarah Erie. 

84 Sarah fibster, 

85 Phebe foster, 

86 Hanuh foster, 

87 Hanah foster, 

88 Hanah foster, 
39 Hana foster, 

90 Hanah Hildreth, 

9 1 Hanah woodrufe, 

92 Sarah woodrufe. 



40 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



fiS Hanah Woodiufe, 

94 Abisraile WoodrutV., 

95 Elisabeth woorlruff. 
DC EUipabeth Butlfr, 

97 martha Butler, 

98 Sarah Butler, 

99 Anny Butler, 

100 mary Butler. 

101 mary Rogers. 

102 mary Rogers. Jr. 

103 mary Rogex-s, ter. 

104 Sary Rogers, 

105 debro Rogers, 

106 Patience Rogers, 

107 mary Peirson, 

108 Rebecka Parvin, 

109 Elisabolh Steephens, 

110 Phebe Steephens, 

111 SusauaJi Stevens, 

112 Susana willman, 

113 hauah willmans, 

114 Elisbetb Willmans, 

115 mahitable hericke, 

116 Irenia Hericke, 

117 Phel>e Hericke, 

118 mahitabhi Herlck, 

119 Martha Herick. 

120 Debro Topaig, 

121 Uauah Reeve.s, 

122 Temprance Wick, 

123 Temprance Wick, 

124 Lidia Howell, 

125 Bethia Howell, 

126 fh-eclove Howell, 



127 Ellisabeth ware, 

128 Eisabeth Jesup, 

129 mary Jessup, 

130 Hanah Jessup, 

131 Martha Davis, 

1 32 Sarah Jessup, 

133 mary Howell, 

134 mary Howell, 

135 Ireuiah Roggers, 

136 mindwell Brie, 

137 Mrs. Mary Howell, 

138 Sibell Howell, 

139 Elisabeth Simpkins, 

140 Johanah Howell, 

141 Abigail fibster, 

142 Sarah ffoster, 

143 mahitabell ffoster, 

144 Damary ffoster. 
115 Pennellopie ffoster. 

146 Ellisab(!th Howell, 

147 Dorkis Howell, 

148 Sary Howell, 

149 Sarah Howell, 

150 abigaile Howell. 

151 Elizabeth Goodale, 

152 mary Goodale, 

153 Hanah Goodale, 

154 Sarah Raynor, 

155 Debrah Raynor, 

156 Hanah Raynor, 

157 Sarah fferld, 

158 Mary Halsey, 

159 mahitable Halsey, 

160 marv Halsev. 



THE SETTLERS. 



41 



Ifil 8ariih iniuthorn, 


19.') hJuais Howell, 


162 Mrs. Sus*aiiah Howell. 


196 Jeriisha Howell, 


16S Prudence Howf'll, 


197 Hanah Jager, 


164 Hanah Howell, 


198 Lidia Jagger, 


16.') inahiie Howell, 


199 Hanah Melvlne, 


166 Martha Howell. 


200 Margret Hilyard, 


167 mary fordhaiii 


2111 mary Howell, 


16^ mary fordham. Jr. 


202 Mistry^ Anning, 


169 mary fordham. 3d. 


203 Hanah Clark, 


170 Pbebe fordham. 


204 Pheebe Clark, 


171 allaih fordham. 


20.i Hanah Roiinsifleld, 


172 Deborah WTiitiuff. 


206 Martha Rouuflifield, 


173 Rebeeca Whiting. 


207 Abigaill wilsou, 


174 Hanah Whitino. 


208 Hanah Howell, 


17;^ Ellisabeth Whiting'. 


209 Sarah Howell, 


176 Susannah Maltley. 


210 Hanah Howell, 


177 FuBinah Sayre, 


211 Judith Howell, 


178 lister fordham. 


212 Ann Howell, 


179 Keziah fordham. 


213 Grisill Howell, 


180 Hanah fordham, 


214 Aney Halsey, 


181 Huth White, 


2ir> HuldaErle, 


182 Sarah white. 


216 Ellisabeth Halsey, 


183 mary Halsey, 


217 Debro Halsey, 


184 Elizabeth Halsey, 


218 Mary Ranr, 


18") Pheby Halsey, 


219 Phebe Raynr. 


186 Hanah Erie, 


220 Hanah Rayur, 


187 mary Poast, 


221 Sarah Sayre. 


188 Sarah Poast, 


222 Sarah Sayre, 


189 Dorithee Poast, 


22." Damorus Sayre, 


190 martha Poast, 


224 Phebe Buruatt, 


191 Deltorah Poast, 


22") Lidia foster, 


192 Ester Johnes, 


226 Elisabeth White, 


19?, Phebe Johnen. 


227 Debro foster, 


l.fU Mrs'. Marv Howell. 

7 


228 Ztiuiah foster, 



42 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



229 Aiinah Halsey, 

230 Hanah Howell, 

231 Zerusah Howell. 

232 mary Howell. 

233 Temprancc Halsev. 

234 Sarah Halsey, 

235 Temprance Halsey. 

236 abigaile Halsey, 

237 martha foster. 

238 Bothy foster, 

239 martha foster. 

240 Sarah foster, 

241 Raehell Ludlotn, ' 

242 Jane Lndlam. , 

243 Abigaile ludlom, 

244 Raehell Ludlom. Jr. 

245 ftraaces Cooke, 

246 ffrances Cooke, Jr. 

247 Hanah Host-, 

248 Hanah Rose. 

249 Sarah Hericke, 

250 Elisabeth Buruot, 

251 Elisabeth Biirnott, 

252 Hanah Burnot, 

253 Mary Parker, 

254 Ester Rose, 

255 Hanah Halsey, 

256 Hanah Halsey, 

257 Prudence Halsey, 

258 Patience Ludlom, 

259 Patience Ludlom, 

260 Phe!)e Rogers, 

261 Phebe Rogers, 

262 Sarah Haines, 



2ti3 Sarah Haiues. 

264 Sarah Michill. 

265 Elisabeth Cook, - 

266 Susauah Cook, 

267 Hanah Shaw, 

268 Ellisabetb Cook, 

269 Martha Cook, 

270 Hanah Lupton, 

271 Hanah Lupton, 

272 Lidia Lupton. 

273 mary Laughton, 

274 Hanah Lome, 

275 Abiiifaile Lome. 

276 Hanah Loome, 

277 Johanah nuton, 

278 .fohanah nuton. 

279 Ester leeraiug, 

280 Hannah Cooper. 

281 Sarah Toping. 

282 Sarah More, 

283 Elisabeth more. 
284- Sarah more, .Tr. 

285 miry more, 

286 Hauah Sayre, 

287 Damoues Howell, 

288 Elliner Howell, 

289 Peuellopie Howell, 
2!<.» abiecah Howell. 
291 mary Tarbill, 

392 mary tarbill, 
293 mary Haris, 
204 mary haris, 

295 Deborah Hildreth, 

296 Deborah Hildreth. 



THE !4ETTLERS. 



297 Haiiah Sanford, 


325 


mary noris, 


298 Hanah Sauford. 


326 


Sarah noris, 


299 Elisabeth nuton, 


327 


Hanah leeming, 


300 Phebe nuton. 


328 


Mrs. mahitable White 


301 annah Halsey, 


329 


Elisabeth laugh ton, 


302 annah Halsey, 


330 Mrs. Susanah Peirson. 


303 Johanah Resco. 


331 


abigaile Toping, 


304 Mary barbur, 


332 


Hanah Peirson, 


305 deliverance priest. 


333 Sarah J^eir.son, 


306 mary barbur, 


334 


mary flint. 


307 mary Strickland, 


335 


mary flint, 


308 mary hand. 


336 


Hanah flintt. 


309 Abigaile wade, 


337 


Sarah noris. 


310 Sarah Stanbrough, 


338 


Hanah noris, 


311 ollive Stanbrough, 


339 


Elisabeth noris, 


312 Eunii« Stanbrodgh. 

313 Ellisabeth Stanbrough, 






340 


Debro Howell. 


3U raary Wlllmutt. 


341 


Phebee Howell, 


315 Sarah Wiekhani, 


342 


hanah noris. 


316 mary Topping. 


343 


fl"rances Peirson, 


317 mary Bay he. 


344 


Ana Peirson, 


318 Hannah Topping. 


345 


Martha Stanbrough, 


319 Hauah Toping. 


346 


Martha Stanbrough, 


320 Temprauce Toping, 


347 


Sarah Sayre, 


321 Topintr. 


348 Hanah Sayre, 


322 Martha huse. 


349 


Sarah Sayre, 


323 Hanah Noris, 


350 


Abigaile Burnot. 


324 Hanah !iori«». 







feiuuiile chrjstiaiii* 34!*. 



(^a^It will be noticed the clerk make.s a mistake of one in the 
Bum total of females, but the reader will bear in mind that in 
copying the foregoing and following lists from the old documents, 
we have used the utmost care to present them Verbatim et Literatim, 
regardless of their numerous errors and inconsistencies, in the use 
of oariita! h^tfrs, sp.^liing, &c.. ic. G. R. H.) 



44 HISTORY OF SOUTnAMPTON. 



NEGRO ^fALKS. 

Will, John, Peter, Dick. Tom. Petv^r, Guie, Jack, Jack, Dick, 
Ceaser, Cisto, Jethro, Jack, Titus, Jefery, Lewis, Brigitt. Mingo, 
Dick, TittuH, Tom, Will, Jack, ffranck, Ceser, Samson. Jehue, Nero, 
George, Sambo, Netl, Tobee. 40 names. [7 n.^mea destroyed.] 

NEGRO FEMALES. 

Ann, bety. Isabell. Bety, Elisabeth, Perle, Mariab, Abee. Sarah, 
Hanah, Joane. Sarah, bety. Joane, Ilager, bety, Hnjiah. Rachell, 
Judith, Judith, Jinny, Simony. Rueth, Rueth. Dorekis. Smone, 
Pegree, Philis. hitabel, Sarah, Sarah. Rofse. Mayery. hanah, melly, 
Dinah, Bess. Simony. Female negro persons — 43. [tJ names de- 
stroyed.] 

The number of Christian Males IB 389) ,00 '^ 

49 l '-"^ 



The number of Christian flTemales is 349 i ' (.821 

The number of negro Slaves men is 040 ) ^^^ C 

The number of women negro Slaves is 043 f "' J 



Indian males that are upwards of fifteen years — the Squas ^nd 
children, few of whom have any nam. 

Chiee, Indian, Johnson, Indian. Arther, Indian, An- 
thony, Indian. Thamauty, Indian, Johnaquan. Indian, queegauo. 
Indian. Lenard, Indian, Pisacomary, Indian, Jefery, Indian. Rhich- 
oam, Indian, Red hed will. Indian, Pomquaneo. Indian, Simon, In- 
dian, Canady, Indian, Tohemon, Indian. Coyemow. Indian, ffranck, 
Indian, Toby, Indian. Macrobow, Indian, nabamacow, Indian. Philip, 
Indian, Sam. Indian. Tom lenard, Indian, Dick, Indian. Plato, Indian, 
Tom-hodge, Indian, Denitt, Indian, obedia. Indian, Cuttuas, Indian, 
Abraham. Indian, Isaac. Indian, Sara, Indian, Steephen, Indian, 
nodian, Indian, Judas, Indian, Weegon, Indian, Cough, Indian, Sam, 
Indian, William, Indian, na, Indian, Chitty, Indian, Hary. Indian, 
Joseph, Indian, Tom, Indian, waynantnck, Indian, waneno. Indian, 
Titus, Indian. 

Tlie number of Indians upwards of 15 years. - - - . 52 
The Indians Informes there is about the same number of 
woomen, and as many Children. 100 



\.y} 



i 



THE SETTLERS, 4S 

" The hethen are So Scattered To and frow that 
they can neithpv be Sunionsed in '•' 

'' The above listt of the Inhabitants of ye Town 
of Snutliampton, Taken by me this 15th day of Sep- 
tenibeivl698. 

Mathew Howell." 

Note. — ^The tigures prefixed to the names in the 
above lists are not found in the original, but are 
added for convenient reference. 

It may be remarked that of the list of males above 
given, the first thirty-six or seven lived in North Sea. 
From No. 38 to about No. 55, are given the resi- 
dents on the west or hill street. From No. 56 to 
168, residents in the town street, on the east side, 
including, it may be, a few, in the street leading to 
Bridge Hampton and Toilsome Lane : the list begins 
at the north and progresses southward. From 169 
to 213, commencing at the south end of the west side 
of the town street and proceeding northwards, the 
lists embraces all therein residing. From 214 or 
perhaps 218 to 268 or perhaps 270, the residents of 
Wickapogue, Cobb, Waterraill and the neighboring 
region are given. From 270 to the close are recor- 
ded the inhabitants of Mecox, Sagg and Bridge 
Hampton. 

In the list ot' females above given we notice, the 
name of Mary occurte 61 times ; Hannah, 57 ; Sarah, 
4^ ; Elizabeth, 27 ; Abigail, 14 ; Phebe, 14 ; De- 
borah, 11 ; Susanah, 10 ; Mehetabel 9 ; and Joana, 
5 times. 

Among the names of the male inhabitants we find 

*lfaiiascript torn. 

V. 8 



46 



aiSTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



the name of John occurring 50 times ; Joseph, 24 ; 
Thomas, 22 ; Samuel, 21 ; Isaac, 15 ; Benjamm, 
14 ; Jonathan, 14 ; William, 14 ; David, 13 ; James 
13 • Daniel, 10 ; Jeremiah, Josiahand Richard, each 
9 times ; Ephraim, 8 ; Jonah, Henry and Nathan, 
each 6; and Abraham and Edward, each 5 times. 



"The Estemate of the Towne of Southampton for 
the veare 1683." 



From r>oc. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. 2, pnge 536. 



No. of Polls. £ «• 

0. Widow Hannah How- 
ell 267 00 
S. John Anning 088 10 
3. Capt. John Howell 442 10 

2, Lieft. Joseph Ford- 

ham 459 10 

3. Thomas Hal«oy 41116 
5. Edward Howell 400 00 
2. Peregrine Stan- 

hrough 320 16 

2. Job Sayre 164 10 
1. James Topping 249 06 
1. Benjamin Palmer 089 00 

1. Josiah Stanbrow 130 00 

3. John Davess 140 00 

2. John Rose 133 00 
1. Joseph PoPt 062 03 



00 
00 
00 

00 
08 
00 

08 
00 
08 
00 
00 
00 
00 
04 



No. ot Polls. 
1. Simon Hillyard 
I Benjamin Hand 
1. Thomas Rose 
1. John Burnett 

1. Joseph More 

2. Willm. Hakelton 
1. Thomas Burnett 

1. Mr. Phillips 

0. Mrs. Mary Taylor, 

widow 

2. Francis Sayre 

2. Isaac Halsey 

3. John Jeasup 

2. Henry Ludlam 

1. Lutt Burnett 

1. James Hildreth 
1. Ezekiell Sanford 



023 00 00 
086 00 00 
047 10 OO 
0.^)6 06 08 
083 00 00 
041 00 00 
119 06 08 
16 I 06 08 

064 13 04 
178 00 00 
345 00 00 
360 06 08 
203 13 04 
100 00 00 
030 00 00 
060 00 00 



THE SETTLERS. 



47 







£ .^. d. 




1 


Pefw Noiio 


051 00 00 


2 


1 


. Rohort Nnrriss 


052 00 00 




2 


Josrph A[{irsh:ill 


058 00 00 


2 


1 


John Rainor 


094 00 00 


2. 


1 


John Jcnninjfs 


129 10 00 


1. 


1. 


Isaac Rainor 


0<14 00 00 




1 


Jamo« Wh5t»? 


092 It) 0>! 


2. 


1 


John Lupfon 


0<>7 00 00 




1 


Widow Man' Rai- 








ner 


166 00 00 




1. 


Benony Newtmi 


067 00 00 




1. 


Samuel Millx 


032 00 00 




1. 


Samuel Lum 


076 00 00 




1. 


Edmond C!ark« 


056 00 10 




1. 


Widow Sarah Coo 








ppr 


337 06 08 




1. 


Obadiah Uo.:,'«;rs. Jr 0.52 00 00 




3. 


Tho : Travally 


229 10 00 




T. 


Mr. Jonah Fordham 081 13 04 




1. 


Josiah Halsey 


125 13 04 




1. 


Christopher I.oam- 
ing 


053 13 04 




1. 


Jonathan Rainor 


197 03 04 




3. 


Daniell Sayre 


207 03 04 




0. 


Joseph Sayrp 


023 00 00 




1. 


Benjamin Pierson 


051 06 08 


2 


1. 


John Langhton 


098 06 08 


2. 


3. 


Charles Sturmey 


198 10 00 


1. 


2. 


Joseph Foster 


138 03 04 


1. 


1. 


Obadiah Roggers 


200 16 08 


1. 


1. 


Joseph P»'irRon 


127 06 08 




1. 
2. 
1. 
1, 


Isaac Mills 089 03 04 
Samuel Whitehead 053 00 00 
Robert Woolly 118 00 00 
Thomas Cooper, Jr 163 00 00 


1. 
2. 
3. 
1. 



£. s. ih 
. Joshua nHrn«^f! and 

Sam 232 13 04 

. John Jagger 289 10 00 

. Thomas Cooper 209 06 08 
. Widow Martha 

Cooke 194 13 04 

. John Fo;-ter 178 06 08 

. John Lanrison 254 00 00 

. John Howell, Jr. 121 10 00 

. John Earle 046 00 00 

. Christo : Foster 074 00 00 

. Richard Post 100 OC 08 

. Abraham Howell 043 00 00 

, John Post 169 13 04 

David Brigs 040 00 00 

Samuel Clark : old 

towne 059 10 00 

, David Howell 077 00 00 

Joeiah L lughtou 024 00 00 
Ben ; Davess 107 06 08 

Nathanll Short 030 00 00 
Thomas Steephens 080 00 00 
Gersham Culver 098 06 08 
Thomas Goodwin 030 00 00 
Isaac Cory 148 03 04 

John Bishop, Jr. 055 13 00 
Samu'l .Johnes 249 16 08 
Abraham Willman 054 10 00 
Henry Peirsoa 136 10 00 
Samuel Clarke, No. 

Sea. 113 00 00 

John Woodroufe 160 00 00 
Elnathan Topping 275 00 00 
John Bishop 214 00 00 

Isaac Willman 187 10 00 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



1. 


Hannah Topping, 
widow. 


.£ H. d. 

180 00 00 


1. 


Huinplir-\v Hngh.?s 052 06 08 


.1. 


Thomas Rpevps 


101 00 00 


1. 


John Cooke 


1«9 00 00 


1. 


John Mappein 


112 13 04 


1. 


Shamger Hand 


089 13 04 


1. 


John Else. 


030 06 08 


1. 


Benony P'lintf , 


060 00 00 


1. 


Joseph Hidreth 


100 00 00 


1. 


John Caruitby 


040 00 00 


2. 


Richard Howell 


2.^)0 00 00 


2. 


ThomaH Shaw 


OfiO 00 00 


1, 


Edmond Howell 


240 00 00 


3. 


Xtopher Lupton 


200 00 00 


]. 


George Harrisa 


137 00 00 


1. 


Richard Howell. J 


' 030 00 00 


1. 


John Morehouse 


064 00 00 


1. 


William Mason 


O.iO 00 00 


2_ 


James Herrick 


180 00 00 


1. 


William Herrike 


0.59 00 00 


S. 


Benjamin Foster 


220 no 00 


i. 


Aron Burnett 


037 00 00 


0. 


Widow Fowler 


027 00 00 


1. 


Benjamin Haines 


140 00 00 


1. 


Mathew Howell 


070 00 00 


1. 


ManassahKemptonOlS 00 00 


1. 


George Owen 


023 00 00 


1. 


Thurston Rainor 


040 00 00 



£ 8. d. 
1. Mr. William Barker 060 00 00 
1. Wiirm Slmpkins 040 00 00 
1. Mr. Henry Goreing 018 00 00 
1. John Gould 040 00 00 

1. Joseph Whitehead 030 00 00 
1. Samuel 1 Cooper 035 00 00 

1. J. Barthallomew 018 00 00 

1 Onesiphorus Stand- 
ley 018 00 00 

2. .\brain Hanke. 060 00 00 
1. Zachary I.auranse 018 00 00 
1. Callob Caruitby 018 00 00 
1. John Petty 030 00 00 
1. Thomas Shaw, Jr. 018 00 00 
1. Isaac Willman, Jr. 030 00 00 
Robert Kallem 010 00 00 

0. George Hethcote, 022 00 00 
John Sanders 012 00 00 

1. John Wrtolley 018 00 00 
1. Edward White 030 00 00 
1. Jonat Hildreth 030 00 00 
1. John Mouberry 030 00 00 
1. Mr. Frencham 018 00 00 



Sum totall is 16328 06 08 
Zerobabell Pyllips, Constable. 
John Jagarr. ^ 

John Foster, ( ^ 

Jono. Howell. Jr., f^^^^^^"-*- 
Joseph Pierson. ) 

Southampton Sept ye 1st 1683 

A true copy of ye originall by mee 

John Howell Junr Clark. 
Endorsed, The Estemation of the town of South- 
ampton, 1683. 



CHAPTER in. 

CHARACTER OF THE SETTLERS. 

Of the. oharactter of oiir ancestors there can be no 
question. They were men of sterling worth, the 
Puritans of England. They were more than mere 
colonists — they were the exponents of a new civili- 
zation founded on the idea, that under God, men 
could govern themselves. Their flight from Eng- 
land and self-exile on these shores was the strongest 
protest they could give against the divine right of 
kings in civil and religious government. That they 
acknowledged Christ as the only head over his 
church is not only manifest in their actions, but 
also in the touching language at the close of the 
" articles of agreement," given in the appendix, 
" and that whensoever it shall please the Lord, and 
he shall see it good to adde to us such men as shall 
be fitt matter for a Church, that then wee Avill in 
that thinge lay ourselves down before ye Consti- 
tutes thereof, either to bee or not to bee received 
,as members thereof, accordinge as they shall discern 
the work of (xod to be in our heart." 

That they were men of intelligence, is seen in their 
free charter, their just laws, and liberal institutions. 
They secured in their patent, land tenure by gavel- 
kind * which had from time immemorial prevailed 

* Blackstone 1, 74 

9 



50 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

in tlie county of K<-nt, in England. Wliilc the 
tenures in all other counties of England had ])een 
more or less hnrdcned from the time of the Norman 
conquest with restrictions, liabilities, or knight ser- 
vice, the Kentish men had always held their land 
in free and common socca,ge ; contributing only 
proportionally their share in the expenses of gov- 
ernment. In addition, upon the death of a land- 
holder intestate, instead of the real estate devolvjng 
upon the eldest scni, the more eqnitabl.' and demo- 
cratic custom prevailed of dividing it equally among 
all the surviving children. 

At the foundation of their colony they adopted 
for their governnumt the "Laws of Judgment aa 
given by Moses to the Commonwealth of Israel, so 
farre foarth as they bee of worrath, that is. of pei- 
petuall and universall equity among all nations." 
liike the Jewish Commonwealth too, the form of 
government was a kind of theocracy. Church and 
state wt^-e united, and its head was the Lord Jesus 
Christ. Offenses which would now be tried (if at 
all) by courts ecclesiastical, were then tried by tlie 
(xeneral Court of Freemen. A taxation, pro rata, 
was levied on all pr(q)(3rty to raise the salary of 
the minister. Even the right of suffrage appears 
for some little time to have been confined to the 
members of the church. 

It was the difference of opinion on tliis question, 
whether any but church members should exercise 
the right of freemen, that induced the Rev. Abra- 
ham Pierson to leave them for a connection with 
the New Haven Colony, in 1647, Southampton 



CHARACTER OF THE SETTLERS. 51 

having Unilod with Hartford ou the Connecticut 
Cohmy, in 1(144. The N(hv Haven people, h^d by- 
John Davenport, were for giving the rights of free- 
men only to the members of the church — the Hart- 
ford Colony Avould open the door to all However 
this question may appear to us in this day, still 
there is something striking — something that re- 
minds us of the stern uncomjiromising spirit of the 
old prophets in the doctrine that no man was tit to 
govern or l(>gislate for others, until he was himself 
obedient to the laws of God. 

They were formed into a church organization at 
Lynn, a few months after a settlement had been 
etfected in Southampton, and brought over their 
minister with them, tlie Rev. Abraham Pierson, 
and erected their first church edifice in the second 
year of th(!ir settlement. Like their brothers in 
New England, wherever they went, the school-house, 
too, followed in their wake. It is worthy of remark, 
that of th(! twenty who signed the articles of agree- 
ment, four only were (obliged to sign by proxy, at a 
period when many a baron in England was com- 
pelled to make his mark. Some peculiarities they 
had — faults too, doubtless, and yet they were men 
to be honored for their bravery and reserved for 
their virtues. 

They were also men of means and of good social 
standing in the mother country. One of their num- 
ber, an eminent man, in correspondence writes; 
"he was a gentleman of coat-armor, and his place 
in the settlement always magistrate — the proprietor 
of the mill (like the old TTrench Sieurs, and Eng-^ 



52 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

lish Lords of the manor,) and the acknowledged 
head in everything, coupled witli the style and 
manner of such writings of his as I have seen, suf- 
ficiently show that he was of the hest class of those 
which came over — the class which included Win- 
throp and Humphrey." 

In Gov. Dougan's leport of the Province of New 
York, in 1687, occurs something mure equivocal. 
He says : " The lirst year there was £52 offered for 
the Excise of Long Island, hut I thought it un- 
reasonable, it being the best peopled place in this 
Government, and wherein theres great consump- 
tion of Bumm, and therefore I gave commission to 

Mr. Nicholls and Mr. Vaughton, &c Most 

part of the people of that Island, especially to- 
wards the east end, are of the same stamj) with 
those of New England, refractory and very loath to 
have any commerce with this place to the great 
detrimt of revenue and ruin of our Merchants." 

In 1703, Wm. Vesey, in a report of the state of 
the churches in the Province of New York, says : 
" In Suffolk County, in the East end of Long Is- 
land, there is neither a church of England minister, 
nor any provision made for one by law, the people 
generally being Independents and upheld in their 
separation * by New England Emissaries." 

There is one other feature in their laws which 
merits our attention. 

With all their puritanic strictness, they allowed 
more freedom of conscience than was usual in that 
period of intolerance, whether in England under 
*Sic. 



CHARACTKR OF THE SETTLERS. 53 

the Stuarts, or in New England among the Inde- 
pendents. Toleration was practised so far as to al- 
low the existence of heretical doctrine, provided the 
dissenter confined his dissent or unbelief to his own 
bosom. The legal prohibition was directed only 
against the promulgation of false doctrine. This 
liberality in matters of conscience and religious 
belief, was far in advance of that persecuting spirit, 
which stains the history of these times through 
the civilized world. 

Their puritanic principles made their mark <;u 
the civilization and morals of the community, that 
lingers even to this day, and f<^r purity of morals 
and sobriety of life, the village will only find a 
parallel in those other villages, where dwell the 
descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of New Encj- 
land. 



CHAPTER IV. 

CIVIL RELATIONS— PURK JJEMOCKACY UNION 

WITH CONNECTICUT WITH NEW YORK 

DUTCH INTERREGNUM— AGAIN WITH NEW 
YORK. 

Thk civil relations of the colony afford an inte- 
resting Held for investigation. In the veiy begin- 
ning the principle of self-government is developed 
in admirable perfection. For the first four years, 
these thirty or forty families formed a little repub- 
lig by themselves. It was a pure democracy with- 
out a parallel, save in the short-lived republics of 
ancient Greece. For the time being, Southampton 
was their country^ and we cannot bestow too high 
praise on their efforts to secure justice and equal 
rights and protection to every individual. They 
reversed the maxim of Louis XIV. '' I am the 
state" — with them the state was the people, and 
for the people, and not the people for tlie state. A 
town meeting, or Genei-al Court, as it was called, 
was held half-yearly, composed of the people them- 
selves, who were obliged to attend regularly under 
penalty of a fine. This court exercised the extra- 
ordinary powTTs of a legislature and a judiciary ; 
defined the limits and powers of the magistrate's 
court ; received and decided appeals from the same ; 
was the proper tribunal for trying crimes punishable 



CIVIL RELATIONS. 55 

witli death ; (thouj^^li happily they were s})ared from 
any such duty :) settled civil cases ; allotted lands 
and electf^d officers ; enacted a code of laws founded 
on those given by Moses to the Jewish nation ; 
made bye-laws and regulations necessary to the safe- 
ty and well-being of the community, and had gen- 
eral supervision over the interests of the body pol- 
itic. These powers are defined in an act of the 
general court, passed January 2, 1641. 

For reasons that do not appear on the record, 
they deemed it expedient to unite themselves to the 
colony of Connecticut, in 1644, as will appear from 
the following order : 

March 7, 1864. It was voted and consented 
unto by the General Court, that the Town of 
Southampton, shall enter into combination with 
the jurisdiction of Connecticut. 

And the exact time of the union is discovered 
also in this second decision of the General Court. 

June 20, 1657. " At a Towne Meeting it was 
voated and concluded by the major part to accept 
of, and receave all the lawes of the Jurisdiction of 
Connecticut, not crossing nor contradicting the 
limitations of our combination bearing date. May 
30, 1644." 

These articles copied from Trumbull's Colonia 
Records of Connecticut, vol. i : p. 566, are as fol- 
lows : 

" A. coppie of ye combynatiou of Southampton, 
wth Harford. 

" Whereas formerly sumeOverturs have by letters 
paste betwixt sume deputed by the Jurissdiction of 



56 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Oonectecote and others of ye plantation of South- 
ampton upon Lonf^ Island, conceriung union into 
one boddy and government, whereby ye said Towne 
might be interested in ye general combination of yv. 
united Collonies for prossecution and issuing wherof, 
Edward Hopkins and John Haines being authorised 
with jjower from ye Generall Corte for ye Jurisdic- 
tion of Coneeticnte, and Edward Howell, John 
Gosmer and John Moore, deputed by ye Towne of 
Southampton, It was by the said })arties concluded 
& agreed, and ye said Towne of Southampton doe 
by their said deputies, for themselves and tluvir suc- 
cessors assotiate and joyne themselves to ye Juris- 
diction of Connecticote to be subject to al the lawcs 
there established, according to ye word of God and 
right reson with such exceptions and limmitations as 
are hereafter expressed. 

" The Towne of Southampton by reson of ther 
passage by sea being under more difficulties and un- 
certainties of repayring to ye several Cortes held for 
ye Jurisdiction of Conecticote, upon ye mayne land, 
wherby they may be constrained to be absent both 
at ye times of election of Magistrates, and other oca- 
tions wch may prove prjudicial to them : for prvent- 
ing wherof, it is agreed yt for ye prsent, until more 
plantations be settled neere to ye Towne of South- 
ampton, wch may be helpful each to other in pub- 
like occations, (and yt by mutual agreement betwixt 
ye said Towne and ye Generall Corte for ye jurisdic- 
tion of Connectecote it be otherwise ordered,) there 
shall be yearly chosen two Magistrats inhabiting 
wthin ye said Towne or liberties of Southampton, 



CIVIL RELATIONS. 57 

who shal have yt- same power nth ye Prticular 
Courts upon ye Riuer of Conectecote, though no 
other Magistrats of ye jurisdiction be present for ye 
Administration of Justice and other ocations uch 
may concerne the welfare of ye said Towne, offences 
only uch concerne life excepted, or limb?, uch always 
shall be tryed by a Courte of Magistrats to be held 
at ye Riuers nnuth, U3h said Mrgistrats for ye 
Towne aforesaid, shall be chosen in manner following : 
" The Towne of Southampton by ye freemen 
thereof shall yerely prsent to sume Generall Courte 
for ye Jurisdiction of Conectecote, or to ye Gov- 
ernor thereof, before ye Courte of Election uch is ye 
second Thursday in April, the names of three of 
their members of their said Towne, and such as are 
freemen therof whome they nominate for Magistrats 
the year ensuing, out of uch ye Generall Courte for 
ye Jurisdiction shall chowse two, who upon oath 
taken before one, or l»oth of ye Magistrats for ye 
prcedent yeare at Southampton, for ye due execu- 
tion of their place, shal have as ful power to pro- 
ceede therein as if they had been sworne before ye 
Governor at Conectecote. It is also provided yt yc 
freemen of ye said Towne of Southampton shal 
have libertie to voat in ye Courts of Election for ye 
jurisdiction of Conectecote, in regard of ye distance 
of ye place, by proxie. But in case the Towne of 
Southampton shall by any extreordinarie hand of 
Providence, be hindered from sending ye names of ye 
three prsons to be in Election for Magistrats, vnto 
ye Ganerall Court in Aprill, or having sent, ye same 
doe Miscarrie, it is in such case then provided and 



L 



58 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

agreed, yt ye two Magistrats for ye precedent yearc 
shall supply ye place until ye next Generall Co arte 
for election. 

" It [is] agreed and concluded, yt if upon vtwe of 
such orders as are alreddy established by ye General 
Courte for ye Jurisdiction of Connecticote, there be 
found any difference therein from such as are also 
for ye present settled in ye Towne of Southampton, 
the said Towne shal have libertie to regulate them- 
selves acordinj; as may be most sutable to their owne 
comforts and conveniences in their owne judgment, 
provided those orders made by them concerne them- 
selves only and intrence not upon ye interests of 
others or ye Generall Combination of ye united 
CoUonies, and are not cross to ye rule of riteous- 
ness. The like power is also reserved unto them- 
selves for the future, for making of such orders as 
may concerne their Towne «»cations. 

" It is agreed and concluded, yt if any party find 
himself agresed by any sentence or judgment pass(?d 
])y ye Magistrats residing at Southampton, he may 
appeale to sum i)rtic\dar or General Court uj^on 
[the] Riuer, provided he put in securitie to ye satis- 
iaction of one or both of ye Magistrates at South- 
ampton, spedily to prosecute his said appeale, and 
to answer such costs and damages as shal be thought 
meete by ye Court to which he appeals, in case there 
be found no just cause for his appeale. 

" It is agreed & concluded yt ye said Towne of 
Southampton shal only beare their own cliarges in 
such Fortifications as are necessarie for their owne 
defence, maintaining their own otficers and al otlier 



CIVIL RELATIONS. 59 

things that conct-rne themselves, not being lyable to 
be tiixod for foititications or other expences yt only 
apertaine to the plantations upon the Riuer, or else- 
where. But in such expences as are of mutuall & 
common concernement, both ye one and the other 
shall beare an equall share in such proi)Oition as is 
agreed by the united Collonies, vizt according to the 
number of males in each })lantation from 16 to 60 
years of age. 

"The oath to be taken at Southampton. — T, A. B., 
bing an Inhabitant of Southampton by ye Provi- 
dence of God, combined with ye Jurisdiction of 
Conectecote, doe acknowledge myself to be subject 
to ye Government th( rof, and do sweare by the greate 
and dreadfull name of the everliving God, to be true 
and faithful! to the same, and to submit both my 
person and estate thereunto, acording to all the 
wholesum lawes and orders yt are or hereafter shal 
be made and established by lawful Authority nth 
such limmita ions & exceptions as are expressed in 
ye Combynation of this Towne with ye aforesaid 
Jurisdiction, & that I wil nether plot nor practice 
any evil against ye same, nor consent to any that 
shal so doe, Init wil timely discouer it to lawful au- 
thority there established ; and yt I will, as I am in 
duty bound, maintaine the honner of the same, and 
of ye lawfuU Magistrats thereof, promoteing ye pub- 
like good of it, whilst I shall continue an Inhab- 
bitant there ; and whensoever I shal give my voate 
or suffrasre touching anv matter uch concerns this 
Common Wealth, being cald thereunto, I wil giue 
it as in my consience I shall judg may conduce to ye 



60 HisTorty of Southampton. 

best good of ye same, uthoiit resi>ect [of] |)eiK0ii8 
or favor of any man ; see lielp me God in yo Lord 
Jesus Christ.' 

" The forementioned agreements wear concluded 
ye day & yeare above written, bstwene ye parties 
above mentioned in behalf of ye Jurisdiction of 
Conectecott, and ye Towne of Southami)ton, uth 
relference lo ye a})robation of ye Commissioners, for 
ye united Collonies, uch being obtayned the said 
agrements are to be atendtnl and ol)served, according 
to ye tiue intent and jjurpose thereof, or otherwise 
to be voyde and of noe effect ; and in testimonie 
therof have interchangeably [ ] put to their hands." 

The union of East Hampton with the same col- 
ony followed in 1657, and tliat of Southold with 
New Haven in 1648. 

The Deputies sent to the General Court of Con- 
necticut at Hartford, from 1644 to 1664, according 
to Thompson, were as follows : John Howell, from 
1644 to 1651. John Gosmer, from 1651 to 1655. 
Thomas Topping, from 1655 to 1658. Alexander 
Knowles, 1658 to 1659. Thomas To])ping, from 
1659 to 1663. Edward Howell, from 1663 to 1664. 

As before stated, March 12, 1664. Charles II. 
granted with other territory Long Island and Islands 
adjacent, to his brother James, Duke of York, and 
in the following August, New York was surrendered 
])y the Dutch to Col. Richard Nicholls. Under the 
patent granted to Connecticut, Nov. 30, 1644, that 
])rovince claimed jurisdiction over Long Island. This 
question of boundaries was referred to Commission- 
ers of Charles, who decided tha " the Southern 



CIVIL RELATIONS. 61 

bounds of Connecticut is the sea," and that Lonj; 
Island belonged to New Yoik. Gov. Winthiop on 
eeeing the letters patent to the'Diike of York, in- 
formed the English on Ijong Island, that Connecticut 
had no longer any claims upon that Island. 

This union with New Yoik, however, was very 
unacceji table to tlie inhabitants of the east end of 
the Island. Their intercourse with the towns along 
the Connecticut river was frequent, and in customs, 
education and religion they were identical with their 
New England brethren. A considerable trade had 
grown up between the three towns on the east end 
and Connecticut, and the eiforts of his Royal High- 
ness' officials to divert this to New York, met with 
hearty remonstrance. 

An extract from a report of Gov. Nicholls about 
1669, in Doc. History of New York, Vol. i : p. 87, 
will show the change effected in the government of 
the town by its union with New York. 

" 1st. The Governor and Councell with the High 
8heriffe and the Justices of the Peace in the Court 
of the Generall Assizes, have the Supreame Power 
of making, altering and abolishing any Laws in this 
Government [of the province of M. Y.] The County 
Sessions are held by Justices upon the Bench, 
Particular Town Courts by a Constable and eight 
Overseers. The City Court of New Yorke by a 
Mayor and Alderman. All causes tried by Juries." 
A copy of the code of laws by which the govern- 
ment of the Province of New York was administered 
was sent to the town and is still in good state of 
. preservation. 



62 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

The Episode of tlie Dutch inteiTegnmii is inte- 
resting as it reveals the sturdy tenacity of the Long 
Island people in maintaining their civil and religious 
liberty. The following documents taken from the 
Colonial History of New York, Docs. Vol. ii : 
p. 583 IF, present of themselves a clear history of 
the events. 

Pursuant to previous letters and summons ap- 
peared at the Council the Delegates from the Eng- 
lish towns situate on Long Island, east of Oyster 
Bay, delivering in the following writing : 

Jamaica, Aug. 14, 1673. 
"Whereas, wee, ye Inhabitants of the East Riding 
of Long Island, (namely, Southampton, Eastham})- 
ton, Southoold, Seataucok & Huntington) were 
sometime rightly & peaceflfully joyned with Hertford 
jurisdiction to good satisfaction on both sides, but 
about the yeare 1664, Gennll Richard Nicholls corae- 
ing in the name of his Maties Royal Highness ye 
Duke of Yorcke and by power subjected us to ye 
Government under uch we have remained untill 
this present time, and now by turne oif God's provi- 
dence, shipps off fforce belonging to ye States otf 
Holland, have taken New Yorke ye 30th of the last 
month, and wee having noe Intelligence to this day 
Jfrom or Governr Eras Lovelace, Esquyr, off whatt 
hath happened or ut wee are to doe. Butt ye Genn- 
errall off ye said dutch fforce hath sent to us his 
declaration or summons with a serins commination 
therein contained and since wee understand by ye 
post bringing the said declaration that our Governr 
is peacebly & respectfully entertained into ye said 



CIVIL REEATIOKS. 63 

ffort and city ; wee the Inhabitants of ye said East 
Riding or oi'. Deputies for us att a meeting this day 
doe make these or. requests as foHow : 

" Imprimis, That iff wee come under ye dutch 
Goveinmt, wee desire yt wee may retaine or Eccle- 
siastical! Priviledges, vizt., to Worship God ac- 
cording to or belieft" without any imposition. 

"2dly. That wee may enjoy ye small matter off 
goods wee possess, with '-r Lands according to our 
purchase of ye Natives as it is now bounded out, 
without tfurther charge off confiirmation. 

"3dly. That ye oath off allegiance to be imposed 
may bind us onely whyles we are under [the dutch] 
Governmt but yt as we shall be bound not to act 
against them, soe also not to take up armes ffor them 
against or owne Nation. 

"4thly. That wee may alwayes have liberty to 
chuse or owne officers bothe civil and millitary. 

" 5thly. That these 5 Townes may be a corporation 
oif themselves to end all matters of difference be- 
tween man and man, excepting onely cases concern- 
ing Lyfe, Limbe and banishment 

" 6thly. That noe law may be made or tax imposed 
uppon ye people at any tynie but such as shall be 
consented to by ye deputies of ye respective Townes. 

" 7thly. That wee may have ffree Trade uth ye 
nation now in Power and all others without paiing 
customs. 

" Sthly. In every respect to have equall priviledges 
uth the dutch* nation. 

*Is this persistoiit bpeUiug of the word Dutch with a small d 
done designodiy. 



64 



HISTORY OF 'SOUTHAMPTON, 



"9thly. That there be ffrce liberty granted ye 5 
townes aforesd fi)r ye procuring from any of ye united 
Collonies ( : without molestation on either side ;) 
warpes, irons or any other necessaries iFor ye com- 
fortable carrinc: on the whole desi<>;ne. 

" lOthly. That all Bargains, covenant and con- 
tracts of wlf it nature soever stand in Ifall tforce, as 
they would haue been had there bene no change of 
government." 

East Hampton. — Thomas James. 



South Hampton 



South Hoold 



Brook Haven. 



Huntintjton.- 



j John Jessip, 
I Joseph Keyner, 
( Thomas Hutchinson, 
} Isa 

I 



[sacq Arnold, 
Richard Woodhull, 
Andrew Miller, 
( Isaq Piatt, 
( Thomas Kidmore, 
The Delegates from East Hampton, Southamp- 
ton, Southold, Setauket, and Huntington, request- 
ed an audience, and entering, delivered in their cre- 
dentials with a writing in form of a Petition : they 
further declared to submit themselves to the obe-j 
dience of their Hio;h Miditinesses, the Lords 
States-General of the United Netherlands and hist 
Serene Highness the Prince of Orange, &c. Where- 
upon the preceding Petition having been read andj 
taken into consideration, it was ordered as follows 

On the first point : They are allowed Freedom oi 
Conscience in the Worship of God and Church] 
discipline. 

2d. Th.'y shall hold and possess all their goodaj 



DUTCH INTEBREGUM. ** 65 

and lawfully piocnred lands on condition that said 
land be duly recorded. 

3d. Point regarding the Oath of Allegiance with 
liberty not to take up arms agsiinst their own na- 
tion is allowed and accorded to the petitioners, 

4th Article is in like manner granted to the peti- 
tioners, to nominate a double number for their 
lllagistrates, from which the election shall then be 
made here by the Governor. 

5t\i. It is allowed the Petitioners that the Magis- 
trates in each town shall pronounce final judgment 
to the value of five pounds sterling, and the Schout 
with the General Court of said five towns, to the 
sum of twenty pounds, but over these an appeal to 
the Governor is reserved. 

Gth. In case any of the Dutch towns shall send 
Deputi(^s, the same shall in like manner be allowed 
the i)etitioners. 

On the 7tli and 8th Articles it is ordered ; that 
the petitioners shall be considered and treated as all 
other subjects of the Dutch nation, and be allowed 
to enjoy the same privileges with them. 

9th Article cannot in this conjuncture of time, 
be allowed. 

10th Article : 'Tls allowed that all the foregoing 
particular contracts and bargains shall stand in full 
force. 

Why the Couneil of Gov. Colve chose thus to 
snub the English in those five towns in the matter 
of providing a few Avhale irons and necessary tackle 
for ca])turing the whales that happened along the 
coast, is inconceivable. 
10 



66 HIST.»RY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

The following i.s the oath which the Dutch Gov- 
ernment required to be taken by the inhabitants of 
the eastern towns of Long Island. 

"oath of FIDELLITY." 

"Wee do snare in (ho presents of the Alniighly 
God, that wee shall be true and faithfull to ye high 
& mighty Loids ye States Gennerall of ye united 
Belgick Provinces and his serene highnesse the 
Prince of Orange and to their Governrs here for the 
time being, and to ye utmost of our power to pie- 
vent all uhat shall be attempted against the same, J 
but uppon all occasions to behave ourselves as true 
& faithfull subjec Is in conscience are bound to do, 
provided that wee shal not be forced in aimes 
against our owne nation, if they are sent by a Law- 
full commission from his Majesty of England. Soo 
bel]) us God." 

This oath Avas refused to be taken by the men of 
East Hampton, Southampton, Southold and Hun- 
tington, they understanding that it was to be ad- 
ministered to their ]\Iagistrates only, in behalf of 
the peojjle. Whereupon the Dutch sent a vessel to 
com])el the peo])le to take it in October, 1673. TIk^ 
commissioners on their return to New Yoik, report- 
ed that the inhabitants of these towns " exhibited 
an utter aversion thereto, making use of gross inso- 
lence, threats, &c., so that the Commissioners were 
obliged to return their object unaccom|)lished." 

Doubtless this was a very sorry report for the 
countrymen of Van Tramj» to be compelled to give 
of their ill-success in reducing tht se truculent 



UNION WITH NEW YORK. 67 

Puritans to subjection, and it might have been ex- 
pected — the idea of treating these people as sub- 
dued rebels and subjects of executive clemency was 
simply ridiculous. Gov. Winthrop did all in his 
power to help the Long Island people in this diffi- 
culty. But their High Mightinesses were soon com- 
pelled to surrender a second time the Province of 
New York to the Phiglish crown. It was in July, 

1673, that Captain Manning, commander of Fort 
James, in the absence of Gov. Lovelace, made the 
surrender of New Yoik to the Dutch, and Nov. 10, 

1674, the Dutch Governor, Colve, again surrendered 
it to Edmund Andros, in behalf of the Kino- of 
England. Thus closes the history of the civil 
changes ot the town, down to the war of the Revo- 
lution. 

The commissioners cam" from New York in the 
frigate Zeehond, (16'73) arrived at Southold, and 
called a meeting of the inhabitants to take the oath 
of allegiance to thu Dutch Government. The flag 
of the Prince of Orange was brought in and dis- 
jilaye I. T^^iiling in their attempts to force the oath 
upon the Southold people, they resolved to break up 
the assembly and depart. An extract from the 
frigate's Journal affords an interesting item : 

" On leaving the place, some inhabitants of South- 
ampton were present ; among the rest one John 
Cooper who told Mv. Steenwyck, to take care and 
not appear with that thing at Southampton, which 
he more than once lepeated : for the Commission- 
ers, agreeably to their commission, had intended 
to go thither next morning. Whereupon Mr. Steen- 



68 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

wyck asked what he meant by that word thing, to 
which said John Cooper replied, the Prince's Flag : 
then Mr. Steenwyck, inquired of John Cooper if 
lie said so of himself, or on the authoiity of the In- 
habitants of Southampton. He answered. Rest sat- 
isfied that I warn you, and take care that you come 
rot with that Flag within range of shot of our vil- 
lage." 

They did not visit South and East Hampton 
fearing they would " do mora harm than good " 



CHAPTER V. 

DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR OCCUPA- 
TION BY THE BRITISH PERSONAL INCI- 
DENTS COLONIES SOLDIERS IN THE 

SLAVEHOLDERS REBKLLION. 

During the Revolutionary war the jjcople of (Suf- 
folk county were exposed to peculiar liardships. So 
remote from the field of opeiations, it was a region 
strategically not worth defending, but by its wealth 
of forage and stock well worth the attention of the 
enemy while in occu})ation of New York. But we 
cannot do better perhaj^s than to give the following 
extracts from an address of Hon. Henry P. Hedges 
on the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement 
of East Hampton, in 1849, since the condition and 
the sufferings of the two towns during this period 
were similar. 

" Some of the fijst and heaviest blows struck in 
the war of our independence, fell upon this town 
(East Ham])ton). 

' Whilst the British were at Boston, their vessels 
occasionally carried off stock from Suffolk County.' 

" The journals of the Provincial Congress contain 
the following : 

' July 5th, 75. The People of E. and S. Hamp- 
ton pray Congress that Captn Hulbert's company, 
now raising for Schuyler's army, may remain to 



70 HISTORY OF .SOUTHAMPTON. 

guard the Stock on the coiunioii Lands of Montauk, 
(2000 cattle and 3 or 4000 shec])) from the ravages 
of the enemy/ Jour 75. 

' July 31st, '75. Congress allow Griflin and Hul- " 
beri's companies to remain to guard Stock.' Jour. 
95. 

' In consideration of the defenseless state of E. 
part of Suffolk Co. the 3 companies raised for Con- ■ 
tinental service were continued there' Ap. 3, '76. 

'' As early as the spnng of 1776, an invasion of 
the British forces upon New York city had been 
anticipated. The late of Long Island was readily 
seen to be linked with that of the city. Remote, 
reposed, defenceless, save by their own strong aims, 
but few volunteers could have been expected from 
this neighborhood. Yet East Hampton had lier 
full proportion of minute men in the field. The 
Battle of Long Island was fought August 27th, 
1776, and the whole extent came under the control 
of the British forces. Those forces in part, made 
the East end of the Island their winter quarters, 
and levied supplies upon the country. It was not 
until the 25th of November, 1783, that the British 
troops evacuated New York city. During all this 
seven years the Island groaned under the oppressive 
occupation of their soil by the hostile invader. 
Their circumstances exposed them, however, to suf- 
ferings and outrages from both parties. Their 
forced submission to the Royal Army, (their mis- 
fortune, not their fault,) caused them to be viewed 
with suspicion by their brethren upon the continent, 
and often invited parties of plunder from that quar- 



OCCUPATION BY THE BRITISH. 71 

ter. Multitudes Hed for shelter and protection to 
the shores of Connecticut. 

' Dr. Buell writes from E. Hampton, Sept'r 22, 
'76, that the People are as a torch on fire at both 
ends, which will speedily be consumed, for the Oont. 
Whiggs carry off their stock and produce, and the 
British pnnish them for letting it go, — hopes the 
Whigs will not. opjtrcss the oppressed, but let the 
stock alone.' 

"The history of that seven years' suffering will 
never he told. Philosojdiy has no adequate remedy 
for silent, unknown, unpitied suffering. . . . Left 
to the tender mercies of the foe ; plundered by 
countrymen and stranger of their property and ri- 
pened harvest ; robbed of the stores which they 
reaped and garnered ; slandered by suspicious breth- 
ren ; taunted and scoffed at by tlie merct nary vic- 
tors, they never wavered. Their hearts weie in 
their country's cause ; and in tlie luemorable lan- 
guage of their great compatriot, ' sink or swim, live 
or die, survive or ])erish,' they were true to their 
countiy. Untcrritied, unalterrable, devoted Ameri- 
cans." 

Aside from these occasional raids, from friend and 
foe, the winter of 1778-9 was memorable for the oc- 
cui)ation of Southampton by the British. A squad- 
ron of Cavalry were quartered there, who, by their 
disregard to the rights of projierty and usages of 
war, contrived to gain the ill-will of all the inhabit- 
ants. One old house yet standing, (1866) still bears 
marks on the kitchen floor, of the axe of the British 
Quartermaster. They constructed two or three 



72 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

small earth-works or forts overlooking the town, tho 
escarpments of one of which are still quite sharply 
defined. There were two small iron field pieces, 
canonnades, in possession of the town, which the in- 
habitants, it is said, placed in the belfry of the 
church as weights to the townclock to prevent them 
from falling into the hands of the enemy. It is cer- 
tain one of ijiem was removed thence in 1843, when 
the spire was demolished, and the other had been 
used for many years on the anniversaries of our 
nation's Independents. 

During the occupation by the British, such fre- 
quent calls for forage were made upon the farmers 
that sufficient food did not remain for their own 
stock. A kind Providence, hoAvever, provided for 
their Wcmts. The frost camj; out of the ground 
early in February, and continuous warm weather 
brought out the grass abundantly, and their cattle 
were saved from starvation. 

However, the rigors of a military occupation were 
somewhat softened in Southam])ton by the presence 
of the comm:inder-in-c!iief. Lord Erskine. He had 
his headquarters while remaining hei"e in the house, 
late the residence of William S. Pelletreau. He 
was a mm of integrity and even-handed justice and 
restrained to som? degree the soldiers quartered in 
Southampton from committing the de])redations so 
comm)n in the neighboring parish of Bridge Hamp- 
ton. At length, having become convinced of the 
injustice of the cause of England in her quarrel 
with the Colonies, he resigned his commission and 
returned to Europe. At his old home he then began 



PERSONAL INCIDENTS. 73 

his legal studies and afterwards became the great 
lawyer and brilliant ])arlianientary debater of bis 
(lay. In his first ])lca before the court, however, so 
L;ieat was his diffidimce that nothing but the 
thought of his family ke]>t him from breaking down. 
" When I faltered a moment," he said, "it seemed 
as if my wife was })ulling at my gown." It is said 
that his coming here prevenled the use of the church 
for stabling |)ur[)oses, which was the design of the 
oflftcer in c -mm uid before Lord Erskine's arrival. 

A Mr. Benjamin Foster, who resided in a locality 
known by the name of Littleworth, had one or 
more petty otHcers quartered in his house. He was 
a very devout man, and not ashamed to own his 
Lord. One of these British officers one day asked 
him in derision to pray with him. Mr. Foster re- 
plied that he had regular hours for prayer, and if he 
would come in the m >rning when the family were 
assembled for [)rayers, he should bo welcome. This 
the officer did, bringinjj with him a comrade to en- 
joy the proceeding. But his comrade soon divinjd 
tlio motive whicli led his brotlier in arms to such an 
unusn il scene, an 1 hiving at lei3t a respect for re- 
ligion an 1 his worthy host, imn^diately after prayer, 
took up a hymn b^jk near him, and read aloud : 

" If Pome proper hour appear, 
ril not be overawed ; 
But let 'he scoffing siiiti' r hear, 
That I can speak for God." 

Mijor Cochrane was th3 omnmding offi3er at 
Bridge Hampton, while the Islan.l was ocaupied by 
the British. He is still remembered as a merciless 
11 



74 HISTORY OF 80UTHAMPT0N. 

tyrant. He once caused a peaceable and inoffensive 
man, William Russell by name, to be tied up and 
whipped till the blood ran down to his feet, and this 
with no adequate provocation. As before remarked, 
the people of this parish sufltn-ed much from the 
lawless soldiery — not only from nocturnal maraudere 
but from vandalism perpetuated in o])en da>light. 
Cattle were wantonly carried off, forage seized with- 
out payment, loose property appropriated and even 
furniture in their dwellings demolished. They came 
to the liousc of Mr. Lemuel Pierson and turned him 
out. Against their orders he was determined to 
carry otf some of his furniture, and although they 
stood over him with drawn sword, he persisted and 
gainetl his jwint. At another time they came to his 
house to secure any plunder that might offer itself, 
Mrs. Pierson Avas alone in the house with young cliil- 
dren, but nothing daunted met them at the door 
w th a kettle of hot water and threatened to scald 
the first man who attempted to enter her doors ; 
and the British thinking discretion the better part 
of valor, quietly retreated. 

At another time a number of British soldiers with 
blackened faces and coats turned inside out, came 
at night to the house of Mr. Edward Toppling. Mr. 
Topping was awakened by their no se, and, seizing his 
gun, ran to defend his castle from the intruders. A 
window was raised from the outside, and a man ap- 
})eared about to make an entrance. Mr. To]»ping 
commanded him to retire, and threatened to shoot 
if he persisted. No attention was paid to 'his warn- 
ing, however, and as the man was climbing in, he 
shot, and the soldier fell back dead. He was can led 



PERSONAL INTCI DENTS. 75 

off b}' his comrades, and the next morning v/ord was sent 
to Gy-n. Erskiue at Southampton. He camo over to 
Bridge Ham}»t()n, investigated the atiair, and liaving 
learned the facts, said to the British sokliers around 
him : " Is tliat one of your best men ? Dom him, 
(kicking the bod}',) take him down to the ocean and 
bury h m below high water mark.'' And so ended 
the affair, whicli under Major Cochrane might have 
had for Mr. Top})ing a more tragical termination. 

Taking the oath of allegiance to the British gov- 
ernment, though highly obnoxious to the people, was 
forced upon thtm. A ]>rief extract from Onder- 
donk's Journal refers to this. He says : 

" Col. Abraham Gardiner (of E. H.) administered 
the oath of allegiance to the jieople of East and 
South Hampton. He surrounded the house of Col, 
(Jonathan) Hedges at Sagg, and of Col, Mulford at 
East Hampton, and forced them to the oath. 
Southold met by order of Col. Phineas Fanning to 
take the oath. The cattle on Montauk were driven 
in to Erskin(3. Tories were enlisting at Coram, 
Before Sep. 7, 76." 

David Hand of this Township, residing in Sag 
Harbor, was a sailor both in privateers and vessels 
of the navy during the Revolution. He experienced 
with many others, the horrors of the Jtrsey prison 
ship. On one occasion a small frigate of the navy 
was captured after a short action by a British vessel 
of superior armament, off the harbor of Charleston. 
Being a carpenter he was detailed to make repairs 
on the prize with promise of pay by the English 
commander. After the repairs were completed, he 
was taken in a boat to the British frigate. When 



76 niSTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

about half wpy between the two vessels, at a signal 
frem the coxhwain, the cais wciehove iiji, and altera 
fruitless stuiggle on his part, his tlothts were taken 
by the sailois and divided among th(m. On their 
arrival at the British vessel, he marehcd uj) to the 
commander and d( manded restitution of his clothing, 
but gained no further satisfaction than a surly, 
" Go and find them — I have got nothing to do about 
that." He then asktd for his ] romiscd pay for re- 
pairs of the American frigate, and he was equally 
unsuccessful. C( mjdetely disgusted Avith "per- 
fidious Albion,'' he said to the ca])tain ; "All 1 ask 
now is, to begin at your t{ ffiail lail, and fight the 
whole ship's crew foiward, anel die like a man." The 
captain, of course, ] aid no attention to this, and he 
was orderetl forward among the other prisoners. 
Having surviveel all the dangers of the war, he lived 
long a man of note anel respectability, honored by 
his fellow citizens for his braveiy and nianly virtues. 

Thomas and Abraham, sons of Ethan Halsey, 
also served in the war of the Revolution. 

By the extracts above it will be seen that but few 
men from the east end e)f the Island se^rved in the 
Continental armies ; anel yet there wvyc some, 
though the exact number is not now known. Cap- 
tain Henry Halsey, of Southamptem, infoimcd the 
writer that his grandfather, Jesse Halsey, and ano- 
ther man, on hearing the news of the battle of Lex- 
ington, and the movement of the British forces on 
Boston, at once started for the scene of action. 
Leaving their horses at Sag Harbor, they crossed 
over to New London in a small vessel, and from 



PERSONAL INCIDENTS. 77 

there marched to Boston where they arrived just at 
the close of the Imttk't of Bunker Hill. They then 
joined the Continental army, and Halsey, at least, 
served throngh the war, part of the time as Captain. 
He was })resent, standing near Gen. Lee at the battle 
of Monmouth, when Washington rode up in terrible 
indignation, and, rising in his stirrups, thundered 
out : "In the name of God, Lee, what do you 
mean ?" The old revolutionary hero often spoke of 
it, and was certain of the language used by Gen. 
Washington. Two other townsmen were in this 
battle, and did service during the war — John and 
Elias Pelletreau, the sons of Captain Elias Pelle- 
treau. This town also furnished three surgeons for 
the war of the Revolution, Pleniy White, Shadrack 
Hildreth, and William Burnett. 

Among the celebrities of these times was a negro 
slave by the name of Pompey, owned by the Mackic 
family. He was born in the colonies, was shrewd, 
a man of good sense, of much force of character, 
always ready for a joke and very apt to perpetrate 
one at the expense of another. Many characteristic 
stories of his doings are handed down of which we 
give a few. 

Some dragoons were quartered on his master in 
1778. Considering himself insulted on one occasion, 
and doubtless with good reason by some of them, he 
mixed pounded glass with the feed of some of their 
horses, so that quite suddenly a immber Avere found 
dead in their stalls. Pomp, who was cross-examined, 
expressed profound ignorance of the misforiune and 
thus the matter ended. 



78 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTOIN'. 

On another occasion he had a difficulty with a 
soldier who interfered with his barnyard airange- 
inents. The diagoon drew his sword, but Pomp 
charged and routed him from the field with his 
pitchfork. 

One Baying of his has become proverbial in this 
region. Mr. Mackie had a horse which being wholly 
in charge of Pomp, was pampered witli good care 
and light work. One day the horse drawing a load 
refused duty, and suddenly stopped in the middle of 
the road. This was too much to be borne ; ac- 
cordingly Pomp provided himself with a stout cud- 
gel, marcht'd up to the horse, and, shaking the stick 
in his face, said, "Well, old horse, if you won't 
bear prosperity, you'll have to try advarsity," and 
thereat he gave h m a severe drubbino — and it is 
said, '' Advarsity made the mare go." On another 
occasion he was at work for some one in the neigh- 
borhood and was invited by his employer to ask a 
blessing at the dinner table. Pomp observed a skunk 
served up to his great disgust. He complied with 
the request however, in part, asking the Lord to 
bless the bread, but to curse the skunk. 

This little town, besides sending out pioneers 
singly all over the United States, has even sent off 
its colonies at various times in its history. The 
first of these was a few years after the settlement, 
when the Rev. Abraham Pierson was directed 
by the Association in Connecticut to remove to 
Beauford of that state. Quite a number accom- 
panied him, and some even when afterwards he again 
removed. 



COLONIES, 79 

Cansiderable numbers also removed from time to 
time to New Jersey, durinjy the first hundred years 
dating from the settlement. The Southampton fam- 
ily names are found scattered all over the state. 
Quite a strong colony went out to Blooming Grove, 
Orange County, N. Y., about 1760. 

From a sermon of Rev. Horace Eaton, of Palmy- 
ra, N. Y., we give the following extract concerning 
another Southampton Colony. 

" In 17S8 a cjrapany Wcis formed of eleven, in 
Southampton, Long Island. In the early spring of 
1790, I'ilias Reeves and Joel Foster took their way 
to the far west, as their agents, — first to Fort Pitt, 
now Pittsburg, where they found Imke Foster, an 
acquaintance. Together they penetrated to tlie v^ast 
wilderness of Virginia, to the Ohio, and passed down 
to Fort Washington, now Cincinnati, There they 
purchased land on what was called Turkey Bottoms. 
They left Luke Foster to build and make prepara- 
tion while they returned to conduct the colony to 
their forest home. 

" But a singular circumstance turned the locality 
and the future history of the projected immigration. 
When Joel Foster and Elias Reeves, arrived at 
L3ng Island, they found William Hopkins, an un- 
cle of Eiias Reeves, and Abraham Foster on a visit 
from New Yersey. Hopkins was a son of the Hon. 
Stephen Hopkins, whose trembling hand stands so 
prominent among the signers of the Declaration. 
William Hopkins had been connected with the 
'' Lesse Company," was acquainted with the Genesee 
country and saw its prospective importance. Ho 



80 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, ' 

urged upon his friends the value of a God-fearing 
community. He told them of the colonies from New 
England, that they were descendants from the Pu- 
litans, with principle and purpose congenial with 
their own. His arguments prevailed. Thecomjiany 
relinquished the purpose of settling on the Ohio — 
and directed Elias Reeves and William Hoi)kin8 to 
pass by the northern route, beyond the military 
Tract, while Joel Fosti^r, Abraham Foster, and 
Lather Sanford were to explore along the. bounda- 
ries of Pennsylvania. The Fosters and Santbrd 
started June, 1791, but found the country moun- 
tainous and forbiddin.g. Being carpenters, on con- 
sideration of good wag(;s, they stopped at a place 
called Lindlcy town, and engaged in the erection of 
milih!, leaving the work of exploration to Reeves and 
Hopkins, who, on the 20th of August, 1791, left 
Long Island with their ritles and knapsacks, came by 
water to Albany — then on foot, following the Indian 
trails to Geneva, — thence to town •' No. 12," [after- 
wards called Swifttown — then Tolland — andiinally, 
Palmyra.] These valleys were well watered. The 
height and strength of the trees were an exponent of 
the depth and richness of the soil. They resolved 
to try tlie elfect of hard work and honest princi[)le8 
upon a region more luxuriant than that from which 
they came. Upon the tall maples and the sturdy 
oaks, they placed their names as a pre-emption 
mark. This done, Hopkins nnd Reeves made their 
way across the state to the Pennsylvania line, where 
they found Joel Foster, Abraham Foster and Luiher 
Sanford. There they drew and signed the following 
bond : 



COLONIES. 81 

*' This instrument of writing witnesseth, that 
Wni, Hopkins, of the Stale of New Jersey, Elias 
Keevcs, Joel Foster, Abraham Foster and Luther 
(Sinford, all of the State of New York, do agree 
and bind themselves severally each to the other, un- 
der the penalty of fifty pounds, to abide by and 
make good any purchase of land which Elias Reevet* 
and Abraham Foster shall make of Oliver Phelps, 
Esq., or any other person, within twenty days from 
the date hereof. The proportion of land which each 
of ns shall have is to be concluded among ourselves 
hereafter. In witness of all which we have hereunto 
set our hands and sea*ls in Ontario County, State of 
New York, this ninth day of September, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety 

one. 

William Hopkins, 

Elias Reeves, 
Joel Foster, 
Abraham Foster, 
Luther Sanford." 
After concluding this engagement, all, save Elias 
Reeves and Abraham Foster, returned to the Island. 
These made their way back to " No. 12," stopping 
at the house of one Crittenden, residing in the 
'^ Old Castle," at Geneva. From him they received 
a peck of apples, the fruit of the old Indian Or- 
chard, as a present to John Swift. [Swift was the 
"first pioneer" in Palmyra, and had bought the 
land of the town, though it was not then entirely 
paid for.] When they arrived they were oftered 
some of the apples. They craved only the seeds, 
11 



82 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

and })roceeding to a beautiful bluff on (he Ikim now- 
owned by Gren. Lyman Reeven, they i)lanted them, 
which proved the first bearing orchard west of Gen- 
eva, Having selected their lands, they contracted 
with Phelps at Canandaigua, for five thousand five 
hundred acres, for eleven hundred pounds, New 
York currency, one hundred of which they paid 
down. It will be noticed this was in !Se})tember, 
1791. The Durfee family had not yet arrived. As 
Swift could not meet his engagements, his title was 
doubtful. Hence, Reeves and Foster, to make the 
thing sure, treated with Phelps and Gorham direct- 
ly. But when Gideon and Edward Durfee arrived, 
his hard money met the hard times, and Swift was 
enabled to pay his notes, and received a genuine 
title to the town. Hence we find the Long Island 
Company the next year taking their deed from John 
Swift. 

" Having viewed the land, the spies returned, 
bringing back, all of them, like Caleb and Joshua, 
a good report. This enterprise was not a failure. 
The coming winter, Joel Foster built a sail boat, 
Cyrus Foster making the nails, and launched it on 
Heddy Creek, near Southampton. After a well- 
spent Sabbath, on Monday morning the 4th of April, 
1792, the first colony, from Long Island, embarked 
on their voyage of nearly five hundred miles. They 
sailed through the sound ■■'■ to New York, then to Al- 
bany : from Albany they transported their boat by 
land 16 miles to Schenectady — with " setting poles" 

* lacorrect — they went by the bays along tho south shore of the 
Island- 



COLONIES. 83 

piishtd the boat up the Mohawk to Kome. There 
the boat was taken from the Mohawk and conveyed 
liy hind something less than a mile, to Wood creek, 
thence iloating down to Oneida Lake — through 
the lak(3 and the outlet they came to Oswego River ; 
thence into Seneca River — through that to Clyde 
River — from Clyde River through Mud Creek to 
Saw-mill Creek, landing near the present residence 
of Hiram Foster. The whole voyage occupied 
twenty-eight days. Mrs. Joel Foster brought in her 
arms her eldest son, Harry Foster, then an infant of 
(deven months. 

" The way now being open, the same old hive sent 
out lepeated swarms of working bees. The Clarks, 
Posts, Howells, Jaggers, Culvers, Jessups, and many 
others followed. ' The wilderness and the solitary 
})lace were glad for them ' This old boat did good 
service in going and returning, with other companies, 
as they arrived from Long Island at Schenectady". 
It w^as finally conveyed around to Seneca Lake, and 
used as a pleasure boat. Truly a noble craft ! I 
would go as far to see that old boat as the ship in 
wliich Dr. Kane penetrated the frozen North." 

Besides this colony others removed to Seneca Co. 
N. Y., and still others to Susquehanna Co., Pa., about 
the beginning of this century. Among the latter 
was the Hon. William Jessup of Montrose, who 
b(.'o;inning his career in his new^ home, rose to emi- 
nence and obtained a name honored widely both in 
church and state. ^ 

Upon the discovery of gold in California, of 
course for a people who had lived like the Kings of 



84 HISTOKY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

the north upon the sea, (but not like them hy plun- 
der) and engaged in the perilous enteri)rise of whale 
fishery, who had circumnavigated the world, a trip 
to the mines of the modern Ophir was a trifling 
matter. Consequently, besides a large company who 
purchased a ship, and in the winter of 1849-50, set 
sail from Greenport for San Francisco, others fol- 
lowed in their footsteps from time to time, some of 
whom found them a home and some unhappily a 
grave. 



SOLDIERS IN THE SLAVEHOLDERS REBELLION. 

The repeated demand for men to fill the armies 
and sustain the cause of freedom during the war of 
the Slaveholders Rebellion, from 1861 to 1865, were 
met in a patriotic spirit by the people of Southamp- 
ton. Her quotas were always promptly filled, either 
by her own sons or by substitutes which her wealth 
procured, as was customary throughout the country. 
The following list, it is believed, includes nearly all 
who enlisted in the defense of the government. 

Robert Benedict, 81st N. Y. V., wounded in h g. 
Retm-ned, 

Charles Brown, son of Sidney Brown. 127th N. 
Y. v., killed in South Carolina. 

Charles Brown, * -•' * 

Robert Ellsworth. "••'■ '•' Returned. 

James Foster, 2d N. Y. Cav., died at Anderson- 
ville prison. 

Charles Goodall, died July 17, 1862, in hospital 
at David's Island. 



SOLDIERS IN THE SLAVEHOLDERS REBELLION. 85 

James Goodall, died August 29, 1864, at Atlanta, 
Ga. 

James M. Green, 2d N. Y. Cav. Returned. 
James Green, 2d N. Y. Cav. Returned. 
Charles Halsey, wounded, 81st N. Y. V. Returned. 
Silas Halsey,' killed Dec. 9tli, 1864, at Boyd's 
Landing, S. C. 

Allen Hildreth. * * * 

Isaac W. Hildreth. •••" '•' Returned. 
John H. Howell, 2d N. Y. Cav. Returned. 
Benjamin Huntting, wounded in arm. Returned. 
Oscar dagger, 81st N. Y. V. Returned. 
Hiram Jennings, killed at Nashville, Tenn. 
Edwin Lang, wounded in leg. Returned. 
James H. Post, 127th N. Y. V., died May 18th, 
1862, aged 22 years and 11 months. 
Frederic Rose, 127th N. Y. V. Returned. 
James H. Sayre, 81st N. Y. V., died at Upton 
Hill, Va., Nov. 24, 1862. 

Matthew II. Sayre, 127th, N. Y. V. ucd at Up- 
ton Hill, Va., Feb. 11, 1863, age 20. 

Hampton Squires, a short time prisoner at An- 
dersonville. Returned. 

George W. Ware, 2d N. Y. Cav., died. 
Timothy Warren, 127th N. Y. V. Returned. 
Hubert White, 2d N. Y. Cav., discharged and 
returned. 

William Wick, killed in Battle. 
John Walker, (colored) died or killed. 
William F. Williams (colored). Returned. 

August. Returned. 

James Barclay, 6th N. Y. Cav. Returned. 



86 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Daniel F. Beebe, 127th N. Y. V., died Aj.ril 17, 
1864, aged 22 years. 

W. H. Collet. * * 

Joshua Ellison. Returned. 

James Kane, U. S. Navy, died in Hosjotal, N.Y. 
Dec. 1864. 

Frederick Wadley, 6th N. Y. Oav. Returned. 

Henry Squires. * '■■' 



CHAPTER VI. 

CIVIL LAWS COURTS DECREES OF COURTS. 

We have seon before how the jealous care for the 
liberties of the people resulted in the institution of 
the General Courts, the fundamental idea of which 
was, that the people being the fountain of power, 
should be invested with it. We have also seen that 
for the government of the colony they enacted a 
icode of laws founded on those of the Jewish Law- 
giver. Besides these are found occasional regula- 
Itions for temporary purposes scattered through the 
Records. And when the union with Connecticut 
occurred, they accepted its code of laws also, so far 
as they did not interfere with their own. Again 
when the Island came under the jurisdiction of New 
York, in 1664, they received a copy of laws from 
Grov. Andross, which, of course, superseded all the 
brmer. 

Of course the execution of their laws must be 
committed into the hands of proper officers. The 
first of these were two, and afterwards three magis- 
trates chosen annually. A record defining their 
functions is found, dated Jan. 2, 1641, as follows : 
" The magistrates shall govern according to the laws 
uow established and to be established by G-eneral 
Courts hereafter. They and either of them shall 



If( 



88 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

be able to send out warrants to any officer to fetch 
any delinquent before them, aud examine the cause 
and to take order by sureties or safe custody for his 
or their appearance at court. And furtlier to pre- 
vent the oifenders lying in prison, it shall be lawful 
for the Magistrates or either of them to see execu- 
tion done upon any offenders fur any crime that is 
not capital according to the laws that [are] estab- 
lished or to be established in this place " 

The first magistrates elected were Edward How- 
ell, Thomas Topping and John GosuK^r. Tlie first 
town meeting on record was held April 6, 1641. 

By an order of the General Court, Dec. 22, 1644, 
four quarter courts were to be held annually, com- 
mencing on the first Tuesdays in March and June, 
the third Tuesday in September, and the fourth 
Tuesday in December. These were probably the 
Magistrates' Courts. At the same time it was or- 
dered to hold an antuial General Court on the lu'st 
Tuesday of October for election of town officers. 

For many years this was the county seat of Suf- 
folk County, and of course county courts were held 
here concerning which the town records are silent, 

TOWNSMEN. 

The office of " Townsmen " appears to diffei 
from the Magistracy. Their duties embraced thost 
that are now divided between the supervisor and as- 
sessors, as will be seen from the following : 

'•' Feb. 4th, 1664. John Jessup, Edward Howell 
and Henry Pierson were chosen Townsmen until ye 
6th of October next. During uh time they have 
given them, and are by the Towne authorized ti 



CIVIL LAWS. 89 

make any rate or Levvy they shall see necessary, to 
use all lawf iiU means they shall see meet for getting in 
tht3 debts due from any }»son or psons unto the Tovvne, 
to make any law or order (yt contradicts not some 
former order made by the Towne) concerning fences 
or any < »ther publique occasion, and to doe or act any- 
thing uh in theire judgments may conduce to the 
Towne's advantage. And whatsoever they shall act 
or transact as afforesaid ye Towne doe ratify & con- 
firme and shall observe. Moreover the said select 
men setting up theire order or orders on the Meeting 
house poste at y« beat of the drum the same shall 
bee, and be accom2)ted sufficient and laufuU pub- 
lishmt thereof Ye Towne beeiug to defray ye cost 
ye said 3 men shall be at in ye premises." 

The mere insertion of the orders and decrees of 
the General Court, while it preserves the records 
that are yearly growing more elligible, also, perhaps 
depicts more vividly than a naiTative could possibly 
do the surrounding circumstances of our founders. 
No other apology is therefore needed for the follow- 
ing extracts : 

FREEMEN. 

." South oji the 8th of the 8th month, 1647. It 
is ordered by this general Court that if any man be 
chosen to be freeman of this towne shall refuse it 
shall pay fortie shilling for his fine. 

" Imprimous, at his instance General Court, that 
Richard Odell gentleman was chosen freeman and 
Edward Joanes Josiah Strambro and John White. 
" It it ordered this 7 day of October 1648 by the 
12 



90 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Geneiall Coort that Mr. Richard ymyth, Mr. Wil- 
liam Browne John Howell /;v'eir chosen Freemen oV 
this towne of Boiithampton. 

" This 15 day of June 1649 Mr. Thurston Ray- 
ner is chosen ffreeiuan of this towne of Sontlmmp- 
ton at the generall Coort by the freemen. 

"It is ordered iippon the 6th day of March 1649 
by the generall Court that Willijim Rogers is chosen 
freeman of the towne of ^Southampton. 

" It is ordered uppon the 31st day of Marcli 1650 
by the generall courte that Mr. Thomas Topping 
& Mr. John Ogden were chosen freemen of this 
towne of Southampton aforesayde. 

" 1652 October 6 Mr. Alexander fleild, Christo- 
plier ffeild, Thomas Goldsmith and John Cooper 
Jun. were all and every of them chosen ffrcemen 
of this Towne." 

TRAINING. 

Jan. 1642 Ordered by the General Ooiut that the 
" Company of the Towne of Southampton shall be 
trayned sixe tymes in the yeare." All men from 
16 years old upwards to bear arms unless licensed 
to the contrary, and if absent U])on the calling of 
the roll to be fined two shillings. " Traynings are 
to beoinn at seaven of the clock in the morninti' from 
the first of March to the last of September, then 
from the last of September to the first of March to 
beginn at eight of the clock in the morning." 

" Oct. 9, 1642. It is ordered that every man in 
this towne that bearetli armes shall watch and ward 
and come to traynings in their coats. 

"Oct. 9, 1642. It 18 ordered that whosoever 



CIVIL LAWS. 91 

shall be found sleeping after he hath taken the 
ohargre of the watch shall he liable to the censure 
of 4 lashe.s of the whippe by the Marshall or else 
fi^thwith to pay 10 shillings." 

MEASURES FOR THE SAFETY OF THE TOWN. 
" MAY 4, 1657," 

*' It is ordered by the seven men empowered to 
devise and take means to preserve the town — that 
one half of the Inhabitants of this town shall keep 
centinell or ward in the town according as they 
shall be disposed by officers for that purpose for one 
day — and the other half of the Inhabitants shall 
have liberty to goe about their planting or occations, 
provided they goe together and work soe neere to- 
gether that in the judgment of those appoynted by 
a centinell, the company that soe goe forth may come 
together before any danger in respect of assault, as 
came upon them the other day, and so successively 
until I further order in this respect. And all those 
that soe goe forth are to have their armes with them, 
& it is left to Sergeant Post te see to and effect the 
aforesaid order. 

"It is further ordered that ye letting off of one gun 
shall be sufficient Allarum in the night, and if there 
be any allarum in the night, then all Inhabitants 
from ye North End of ye town to Thos. Sayres* 
shall repaire to about Mr. Gosmer's : f all south- 
ward of Thos. Sayres unto ye lane by Richard Bar- 

* Thos. Sayre lived where is yet the homestead of his descendaat, 
Wm. N. Sayre, M. D. 
t The homestead of Chas. Pelletreau, deceased — now of Wm. S. 
elletreau, Esq. 



92 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

retts* shall rt'i)aire to the Meeting House f : and all 
from thence to the south end of the Town to repaire 
to about Thos. HalHey Senior hiy house ^ : — none to 
make a wilfull fal«e allaruni upon penalty of being- 
whipped. And in case there be an allaruni and a 
man hearing it yet appeareth not to his nppoynted 
place, as aforesaid, shall forfeit to the town the some 
of 5 shillings. 

" Jan. 30, 1667. It is ordered by the Constable 
and overseers together with the inhabitants of the 
Towne that if any pson soever sliall psnme f o make 
any ifalse alarum shall for his or theie Default })ay 
twenty shillings' or be severely whipt, and that n(»e 
pson pretend Ignorance. 

" It is concluded that one Gunne being ffireil of 
in the night after ye watch is set shall beaccompkd 
an Allarum : Likewise three being sudenly ffired 
one after another in ye day ; and all psons are here- 
V)y required to be very carcumspect herein upon there 
utmost perill ; Also that if any upon the watch 
shall at any tyme hereafter bee by such psons as are 
upon oath hereunto appointed, found sleeping or any 
way careless shall pay unto the j>ublick 20 shillings 
for any default. As witnesseth our hands." 

LAND ALLOTTED. 

"October 13, 1643. Thomas Burnett hath a lott 

* Toilsome Lane. 

t The church was on what is now the homestead of Mr. Edwin 
Post. 

X This was probably (for this and other reasons) on Horse-mill 
lane, which ran from the main street to the town pond, and was 
svbout 30 or 40 rods south of the residence of Mr. Francis Cook. 



CIVIL LA.WS. 93 

graunted unto liim one the Southeast side upon Con- 
dition tliat hfie stayc three years in the Towne to im- 
prove it. 

" May 6, 1G48. It is ordered that Thomas Rob- 
hinson ]>e accepted as an inhabitant & hath a fifty 
pound lot granted vnto him provided the said 
Thomas be not vndor any scandallous crime uh may 
be layd to his cliart:^e within 6 moneths after date 
hereafter & that he cary himself here as becometh 
an hon(^st man. 

"It is tfurther ordered that Samuel Dayton 
vshall be accejited an inhabitant & hath a fifty 
pound lot granted unto him provided the said 
Sarauell (being a stranger to vs) weare ol' good 
aprobation in ye {)lace where he last lived at fiush- 
ing & do demeane himselfe well heare for ye time of 
aprobation nam(dy six months next to come. 

"May 12, 1648, Robert Marden alias Marvin (else- 
where called Merwin) granted a £100 lot upon 3 
months aprobation had of him. 

" Dec. 10, 1678. The Town give unto Christo- 
pher ffowder tenn accres of land in some convenient 
vacant place about or neare the land granted to Mr. 
John Laughton for his brother Josiah at the discre- 
tion of the layers out : he the said Christopher con- 
tinuing upon it seaven yeares and improving it." 

This is the first mention in the Records of the 
Fowler family. 

" Jan. 25, 1655. It is ordered that noe Inhabitant 
within the boundes of this Towne shall sell his 
house and Land or any part thereof unto any psoTi 
yt is a forrainer at any time hence forward except 
the pson bee such as the Towne doe like of." 



94 HISTOBY OF SOUTH AMl'TON, 

VOTING ENFORCED. 

" October 13, 1643. It is' cmlered that whatso- 
ever matters or Orders shall be referred to the pub- 
lick vote eiiery man that is then and there prsent 
and a Member of the Courte shall give his vote and 
suffrage t-yther against or ffor any such matters and 
not in any Case to be a neuter." 

LYING. 

" March 16, 1654 (N. S.) It is ordered that if 
any person above the age of fourteeue shall be con- 
victed of lying, by two sufficient witnesses such 
person soe offending shall pay 5s for every such de- 
fault : and if hee have not to paye hee shall cit in 
the titox 5 hours," 

DRUNKENNESS. 

"March 16, 1654 (N. S.) It is ordered that for 
preventing of evill which is subject to fall out by 
reason of excessive drinking of strong drink, that 
whosoever shall be convicted of drunkenness shall 
for the first time pay 16s the second time 20s, the 
third time SOs." 

LICENSE LAW. 

" March 3, 1653. It is ordered that whereas 
Thos. Goldsmith is prevailed with by the towne to 
keep an ordinary in this towne — there is no person 
shall retaile any liquors or wines, or strong drink 
within the bounds of this plantation but hee the 
said Thomas Goldsmith upon penalty of ten shil- 
lings per quart. 

'' Jan. 25, 1655. At a Generall Court Jan. 25, 
1655. To prevent abuses by drinking liquor : It is 



DECREES OF COURTS. 95 

ordered that noe liquor whatsoever that is distilled 
.shall hee soiild within the limitts of this towne by 
any but by our neighbour John Cooper who shall 
have liberty t<» sell to the people, as necessity or oc- 
casion in his judgment requires, whom this court 
did intrust that the bounds of moderation and so- 
briety bee not exceeded by any in his presence or at 
his house. And tluit hee will carefully observe the 
quantities hee doth sell to any out of his house yt 
soe hee may prevent this great disorder at present in 
respect of the Indians, theire having liquor and 
abusing themselves th(!7*t*with, and that to his k.'st 
skill or understanding hee may prevent any from 
Imying liquor from liim that will or may sell to the 
Indians. And as for himself he will willingly de- 
pose that diie(^tly or indirectly hee will not sell nor 
put to be sould any such said liquors unto any In- 
dian or Indians. Alsoe it is ordered, that if any doe 
bring in such liquors within the bounds of this 
r(»wne and sell them to any but unto hiT;! the said 
John Cooper, or put them ashore, (xcepting only 
case of necessity, such said liquors shall be forfeit 
one half to him that seizeth them and the other 
half to the towne. Alsoe it is concluded that hee 
ye said John Cooj)er, shall not exceed the quantity 
of nine Ankers* by the yeare to sell to the Inhab- 
itants of all the towne and the price thereof to be 
reasonable. And the North Sea men finding a man 
that shall ingage as the said John Cooper doth, they 
shall liave the allowance alsoe of three Ankers by 
the yeare and not to exceed. And if any defect ha 

* Anker, a Dutch nicaiure of 10 gallons. 



96 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

in this aforesaid order soe that it reach not the end, 
the Maofistrates have power to supply any deficiency 
herein according to their discretion." 

VARIOUS ORDERS. 

" 1652. At a Towne Meeting Oct. 15, 1652, 
Isack- Wilhnan in a passionate manner said that 
some of them that voated for the raising of the 
Mill knew not more what belonged to the sea-poose 
thanadogg. A note appended says 'hee hath made 
satisfaction.' 

" 1653, March 3. At a generall Co'rt Edmund 
Shaw was oensured for his excess in drinking to pay 
unto the towne tlic some of ten shillings the same 
to be exacted at the discretion of the Magistrates 
according to his future behavior. 

" Same date. Thomas Saire and Joshua Barnes 
for speaking unseemly and unsavory words in the co'rt 
or concerning the co'rt were fined to pay 10s a peece. 

'* 1648, Oct. 4. Thomas Sayre was paid for his 
basse drumme the some of 13s. 8d. his yeare begin- 
neth the said daye. 

" 1648. The 14th daye of November, ordered 
that there shall hereby be provided a sufficient payre 
of Stokes, John White having undertaken to make 
them. 

'' 1651. Sarah Beabe wife of Thomas Beabe was 
at the quarter Court held upon the 4th day of June, 
1651 sentenced by the Magistrates for exorbitant 
words of imprecation to stand with her tongue in a 
cleft stick soe long as the offender committed is read 
and declared. 



OBDERS OF COURTS. 97 

" 1651. At a generall Court held the 13th day 
of August 1651, it is ordered, Yf any person or 
persons be found or it can be i)roved that by them 
any fruit be stolen or taken away off from any man's 
land or ground, yf the person or persons be under 
the age of sixteen years of age, the parents of the 
said chikl or chiklren shall severelly correct them by 
Avhipping of them and that to be done before some 
sufficient spectator : yf the parent or parents of the 
said child or children doe refuse soe to doe, then the 
said person or persons to be corrected before the 
Magistrates and the parents for their neglect of the 
children to uiidergoe such penalty as the magistrates 
shall lay upon them ; as alsoe the ofiending parties 
shall pay for the fruits stolen, and by them, double 
of the value of the fruit shall be paid to the ovvnt r 
of said fruits, and one sufficient witness shall serve 
for conviction. 

''Sept. 22, 1658. It is ordered by Gen. Court that 
Mary Cloave shall live no longer wandering to and 
fro from house to house, but that shee shall live 
again in a place, Except she change her condition 
by marriage. — (Query : was she sentenced previously 
to a vagabond life -for some indiscretion, and this the 
remission of the sentence ?) 

" Jan. 5, 1665. James Herrick is agreed with to 
beat ye drum on ye Lord's Dayes according to cus- 
tome and is to have 20 sh per year for the same soe 
long as hee discharge ye office — the Towne paying 
for Drum Heads and Cordidg. 

"Nov. 6, 1666. Ordered that each man shall set 
up a ladder by his chimney reaching to the top of 
13 



98 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

his house. (The houses were usually two stories in 
front, always facing south, and one in rear — thus 
giving one short and one long roof — the ladder was 
placed on the long roof. So invariable was the 
custom of building their houses with the south, that 
one of unusual antiquity demolished only a few 
years since, was so erected on the south side of an 
east and west street with the kitchen actually front- 
ing the street.") 

WITCHCRAFT. 

" About 1683 Thomas Travally enters a corn- 
jilaint agst Edward Lacy for that the Defend. In- 
juriously called the Complainant's wife a witch and 
said that she set his corne on fire and sat upon his 
house in the night. A witch and that bee was hag- 
riden 3 nights by her ; and hee was Confident she 
was an old witch. 

the charges to somons 10 

To entering and withdrawing the 
action to be paid by ye Deft 2 6" " 

It does not appear from the records or otherwise 
that this delusion so prevalent in New England, ever 
seriously troubled the peace of Southampton. The 
case above recorded stands alone — the only intima- 
tion on record and in this matter tradition is equally 
silent. 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE CHURCH-MINISTERS-CHURCH EDIFICES-SCHOOLS. 

The church of Southampton as might be expect- 
] ed from the character and associations of the settlers, 
was at first Independent. The earliest record con- 
cernino; its formation that has come to the notice of 
the writer, is in the New England Historical and 
i Grenealogical Register. In an account of the Rev. 
Hugh Peters of Salem, Mass., it is there stated that 
he attended the formation of a church at Lynn, 
j composed of individuals who had emigrated from 
that place and settled on Long Island. This was in 
I November, 1640. On the same occasion he assists 
!in the ordination of Rev. Abraham Pierson as their 
Pastor. The church continued under this form of 
Independency until 1716. At least, the first evidence 
of a change of ecclesiastical connection (since the 
early records of the church are lost,) is found un- 
der the following circumstances : 

It Sept. 1716, a call addressed to the Rev. Samuel 
Gelston was laid before the Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia, which was the only ecclesiastical body of that 
denomination in this country at that time, and had 
been organized about 1706. Doubtless the Rev. 
Joseph Whiting who at this time retired from active 
duty in the ministry, and who still lived among the 



I 



100 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

people of his charge in Southampton till his death 
in 1723, assisted in leading t.he congregati(>n to make 
this change of connection. In this call the congre- 
gation of Southampton promise " to subject them- 
selves to the Presbytery in the Lord." And here is 
also the first evidence of the adoption of the Pres- 
byterian form of goveinment in the coiinty of Suf- 
folk, though the church at Jamaica in Queen's 
County had long been Presbyterian, and indeed, has 
been proved to be the oldest church of that d nom- 
ination in the United States.-^ The Long Island 
Presbytery (being the first judicatory of tliat name 
in the province of New York) was set off from the 
Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1716. It was organ- 
ized at Southampton, April 17th, 1717, and was 
composed of the following ministers ; Mr. Mackish 
of Jamaica, Mr. Phillips of Brookhaven, Mr. Pum- 
ry (Pomeroy) of Newtown, and Mr. Gelston of 
Southampton. The church of Southampton having 
thus united with the Presbyterian body has remained 
ever since in connection with the same. The re- 
formed church of Holland and Independency appear 
to have occupied almost the whole ground through- 
out New York for many years after the settlement. 
It is said that as late as 16*64 there was not a single 
E[)iscopal church in the whole province. 

1. ABRAHAM PIERSON. 

The first Minister was the Rev. Abraham Pierson 
who came over fiom Lynn with his little flock ; and 

• See History of the Pres. Church at Jamaic.i. L. I., by Rev. Jamea 
M. Macdonald, D.D. 



MINISTERS, 101 

subsequently in Nov., 1640, was ordained at Lynn 
as before narrated. Cotton Mather in his Magnalia 
says of him : " He was a Yorkshire man, and com- 
ing over to New England, he became a member of 
the church at Boston, but was afterwards employed 

towards the yurt 1640 Proceeding in 

their plantation, they called Mr. Pierson to go 
thither with them, who with seven or eight more of 
thiur company regularly incorporated themselves 
into the church state before going, the whole com- 
pany also entering at the same time with the advice 
of the Governor of Mass. Bay Colony, into a civil 
combination for maintaining government among 
themselves. Thus was then settled a church at 
Southampton under the paternal care of that wor- 
thy man, where he did with a laudible diligence un- 
dergo two of the three hard labors, teaching and 
governing, to make it become what Paradise was 
called, the Island of the Innocents. It was after- 
wards found necessary for this church tc be divided 
— upon which occasion Mr. Pierson referring his 
case to council, his removal was directed into Bran- 
ford over upon the main [Ct] and Mr. Fordham 
came to serve and feed that part of the flock which 
was left at Southampton — but wherever he came, 
he shone. He left behind the character of a pious 
and prudent man and a true child of Abraham now 
lodged in Abraham's bosom." 

He was graduated at the University of Cambridge 
in the year 1632, and having been ordained epis- 
copally, as it is supposed,* he preached for some 

* Thus Dr. Sprague, Imt the ordination according to Hist, and 
Gen. Register, was in 1640 at Lynn. 



102 HISTOUy OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

years in England. Hu arrived in New England in 
1639. The cause of his removal to Branfordis thus 
given in Dr. Sprague's Annals of the American 
Pulpit. 

" Mr. Pierson agreed with John Davenport in 
wishing to rest all civil as well as ecclesiastical power 
in the church, and to allow none but cliurch mem- 
bers to act in the choice of the officers of govern- 
ment, or to be eligible as such. Accordingly he was 
anxious that the little colony at Southampton 
should become connected with New Haven, as 
Southold had been, and was dissatisfied with the 
agreement in 1644, to come under the jurisdiction 
of Connecticut. He therefore removed in 1647 with 
a small part of his congregation to Branford, Conn. : 
and there uniting with others from Wethersfield, 
organized a new cliurch, of which he was pastor 
about twenty-three years." 

He afterward removed to Newark, and was the 
first pastor of what is now the first Presbyterian 
Church of that city. 

He died on the ninth of August, 1678. His son, 
Rev. Abraham Pierson, was the first President of 
Yale College. 

2. ROBERT FORDHAM. 

The second pastor over this church was the Rev. 
Robert Fordham, concerning whom the earliest 
record of April, 1649, is as follows : 

" The agreement between the towne of Southamp- 
ton and the reverend and well beloved servant 
of the Lord Mr. Fordliam concerning his anuall 



MINISTERS, 103 

mayatainance for liis labor in ye worke of the Lord 
amongst us. 

" Inaps wee the present inhabitants do ingage 
ourselves to pay in curant cuntry pay as it passeth at 
a common rate threescore pounds for this present-year 
to beginne the first day of this i)resent Aprill 1649, 
and to make our payments halfe yearly by equall 
portions, furthermore for the year to come & for all 
& every yeare God shall be pleased to continue Mr. 
Fordham amongst us after Aprill 1650 from the 
daye of ye revolution of first yeare ajbove menconed, 
it is Ifully agreed and hearby confirmed that the 
sayd yearly mayntainance shall be fourscore pounds 
per annum to be levied upon every man accor- 
ding to their severall possessions of land in our 
plantation of Southampton and the bounds there- 
of 

" Lastly if fforty lotts shall not be filled, that 
then proportionable abatement of ye fourscore pounds 
is to be made according to the number Ihat is de- 
ficient, in consideration whereof Mr. Fordham's 
owne Accommodations are not to be liable to pay 
any part of his yearly mayntanance nor yet any 
of his estate if the towne shall see cause to alter 
the waye of payment as concerning ye Ministry. 
This agreement was consented to by all tlui inhabit- 
ants, and by them appointed to be recorded in the 
towne book to be established in the behalfe of the 
whole towne." 

He labored here in the ministry, according to the 
Manual of church membership issued in 1843, by 
Hugh N, Wilson, for twenty-six years, and dii d 



104 HISTORY OF SOUTHA^IPTON. 

among the people to whom he ministered, in 1674, 
leaving a name honored among the churches. 
3. JOHN HARRIMAN. 

The next in succession was the Rev. John Har- 
riman, of whom the records ai-e almost entirely si- 
lent. He ministered as pastor, from 1675 to 1679, 
when he removed from the place. According to Dr. 
Leonard Bacon, (Historical Discourses) he was a 
native of New Haven, Ct.j and was graduated at 
Harvard in 1667 ; and continued a resident of his 
native city for about twenty years, but out of this 
must be deducted four years for his pastorate in 
Southampton. During this time he is said to have 
preached as a candidate at New Haven, at Walling- 
ford and at East Haven. This may account for his 
long absences from Southampton which are noticed 
in the following record in the clerks office. It ap- 
p(jar8 that after his return to Connecticut he ad- 
<lressed a letter to Thomas Cooper in which he 
dunned the church for some supposed arrearages in 
his salary. This letter having b(j( n presented in a 
town meeting, the following answer was voted : 
*' Mr. Harriman was so long absent and the town 
paid so much for him which he himself promised to 
repay ; also considering the manifold inconveniences 
that he exposed the town unto, Mr. Harriman in 
equity ought [rather] to make the town compensa- 
tion than that they should pay him one penny for 
his last half year's pains among us." 
4. JOSEPH TAYLOR. 

Rev. Joseph Taylor was the son of Mr. John 
Taylor, of Cambridge, Mass., and was born in 1651. 



MINISTERS. 105 

He graduated at Harvard in 1669, and was appoint- 
ed a tutor in that institution the following year. 
He then studied for the ministry, and was employed 
as a preacher in New Haven until the spring of 

1679. The Ecv. John Taylor huried in the South- 
end burying ground, must have been his brother. 

" At a Town meeting Aprill 1st, 1679. By Major 
voat it is concluded that a man shall be chosen to 
goe over to Mr. Tayler ye ministei", and to presente 
the Towne's former request by letter unto him, 
namely to come over to us and give us a visit and 
if possible to prevaile with Mr. Tayler to come along 
with him ; which sd messenger is also to follow 
such Instructions as shall bee given him touching 
this occation. . 

" By Major voat Mr. Justice Topping is desired 
to be the man to go over on the aforesaid occation, 
namely to procure Mr. Tayler to give us a visit if 
possible as soon as may be." 

Later in the same year we find the following 
record : 

" Nov. 5, 1679. It is declared by a general voat, 
but one excepted of the towns that ye Rev. Mr. 
Joseph Tayler is the man they pitch upon and de- 
sire in the work of the ministry amongst us ac- 
cording to former voat of the Towne and endeavours 
put forth to procure him." 

The call was accepted and he entered upon his 
labors, being installed as pastor of the church about 

1680. (These records show that Mr. Harriman 
must have left certainly before April, 1679). The 
following is an abstract of the "agreement" for the 

14 



106 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

temporal support of Mr. Taylor, dated March 22, 
1680 : 

1. To be paid to him £100 per ammm raised 
in proportion to each man's estate. To be paid in 
winter wheat at 5 shillings per bushel or summer 
wheat at 3s per bushel or Indian corn at 2s. per 
bushel and sundry other products with prices at- 
tached. 

2. The use of a Parsonage and four acres at- 
tached and privilege of a 150 of commonage. 

3. One hundred acres of land in woods or com- 
mons to him and his heirs forever ; together with 
other four acres in fee and described 

4. ' To do a certain amount of fencing for him. 

We cannot but take a just pride in this as in other 
evidences of our forefathers making a generous pro- 
vision for the wants of their ministers. They bt- 
lieved the words of our Savior, that " the laborer is 
worthy of his hire," and acted accordingly. 

The labors of Mr. Taylor, however, were cut 
short by an early death on April 4th, 1682, in the 
thirty second year of his age. His tombstone still 
stands in the old burying ground, in the rear of the 
late Capt. James Post. 

5. JOSKPH WHITING. 

Mr. Whiting was the son of the Kev. Mr. Whi- 
ting, the first minister of Lynn, Mass. He was 
born April 6, 1641, graduated at Harvard in 1661, 
and assisted his father several years and was installed 
as his successor in 1679. He was twice married — 
tirst to Sarah, d. of Hon. Thomas Danforth, Deputy 



MINISTERS. 107 

Governor of Mass., and president of Maine : and 
again to Rebecca, who died April 21, 1726. 

On the 27th day of June, 1682, a committee were 
appointed to go to Lynn, Mass., to invite Mr. Whiting 
to come over and preach to the Southampton people 
on trial. It is not ceitain when he first came, nor 
when he was installed as pastor, but probably in the 
year 1683. 

In 1686 we find an " agreement" with him in re- 
lation to his salary an abstract of which is here 
given. 

1. £100 per annum to be paid in same manner as 
Mr. Taylor's. 

2. Use of the Parsonage and four acres and a 150 
of commonage. 

3. If he continue till his decease, in the ministry 
in this town, then his widow is to have from the 
town £100 in money and merchantable produce. 

His labors in the ministry must have been accept- 
able to the people since he continued with them till 
the infirmities of age demanded a cessation of labor. 
His pastorate covered about 33 years, and his death 
occurred April 7th, 1723, in the 82nd year of his 
age. He sleeps among his flock in the old burying 
ground, and with them awaits his resurrection to 
eternal life. 

C. SAMUEL GELSTON. 

The coming of this minister as before noted, 
marks a change in the form of government of the 
church and in its ecclesiastical connection. From 
Webster's History of the Presbyterian Church in 
America we obtain the following account of him : 



108 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

" He was born in the north of Ireland, in 1692, 
and came as a probationer to New Enghmd in 1715, 
He was received in the fall under the care of the 
Philadelphia Presbytery, and was sent to the people 
of Kent on Delaware. Though desired to stay, he 
left without the consent of Presbytery, and went to 
Southampton on Long Island. There his brother 
Hugh resided ; he was called as colleague with the 
pastor, Joseph Whiting, and the congregation 
placed itself under the Presbytery's care. The Pres- 
bytery of Long Island on its organization, took him 
on trial, and ordained and installed him April 17th, 
1717. His stay was about ten years ; and Aug. 27, 
1728, he was received as a member of Newcastle 
Presbytery, and took into consideration a call to 
Newcastle. The next month he was called to New 
London, Chester County, Pennsylvania." 

After many changes and wanderings and some 
trouble, he is said to have died Oct. 22, 1782, aged 
ninety. 

7. SILVANUS WIjITE, 

The seventh pastor was the Rev. Silvanus White. 
Webster says of him : " He was born in 1704. His 
father. Rev. Ebenezer White, came with his ])arents 
from England to Massachusetts at an early age, and 
was the minister of Bridgeharapton, Long Island, 
from its first organization as a parish in 1695."* 

May 27, 1695. The town voted to give him 15 
acres of land if he came as Pastor of the church at 
Sagg. 

* But Webster is incorrect as to one point — the grandfather of 
Rev. Ebenezer was the emigrant as appears in the family genealogy. 



MINISTERS. 109 

"His son graduated at Harvard University in 1723, 
and was ordained by a council, November 17, 1727, 
pastor of tlie cburch of" Southampton. He mar- 
ried Phebe, daughter of Hezekiah Howell of that 
town. 

While in every town on the Island, there were 
confusions and divisions growing out of the Great 
Revival [1741-2] Southampton seems to have dwelt 
in peace, united in their mini.ster. In the formation 
of Suffolk Presbytery, White and his venerable 
father took an active part, and Southampton prompt- 
ly and unanimously ])laced itself under its care, 
April 27, 1747. Bridgehampton was in circum- 
stances of great difficulty : a separation had oc- 
curred and much animosity existed. The presbytery ■ 
' treated with the venerable and aged minister to re- 
sign.' He consented to do so, and then on the set- 
tlement of Rev. James Brown, they spent much 
time at Mr. Job Parson's with the people of the 
separation on the point, whether they had not vio- 
lated the rules of the gospel in their treatment of 
Mr. White. 'Much seeming stiffness' appeared; 
but at length sixteen men and twelve women signed 
an acknowledgment ' that, though according to 
their present light, they were right as to the cause, 
they were wrong in the manner.' The aged minis- 
ter signed a full humble avowal that under ' the 
sore and awful frown of a holy God, in a time of 
much disorder, temptation and provocation, he had 
spoken unadvisedly with his lips, and asked forgive- 
ness for having spoken to the disparagement of a 
work of grace, while intending to condemn what 



110 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

seemed fraught with evil.' " On the 3d of October 
he wrote to the Presbytery expressing liis opinion 
that the separatists Avho had been received back had 
been treated with too ranch lenity. They replied : 
" the object of church government was edifica- 
tion, n jt destruction." Still, the separating party 
as a whole, must have persisted in their separa- 
tion for some time, for we find them soon after 
erecting a small church edifice in which Mr. Elisha 
Paine was installed pastor. This was known at 
that day as the " new-light" movement, and the 
organization was called the New Light Church. 
However, as the original actors in the separation 
dried off, none rose to fill their places — the organiza- 
tion dwindled, and finally about the close of the 
eighteenth century, whatever remnant remained was 
swept away in a great revival, and merged into the 
Presbyterian Church. The tomb stone of Mr. 
Paine Bears the following Epitai)h : 

la memory of the Rev | Mr. Elisha Paiue V D M who | 
died Angst 26 AD 1775 JE 83 | uas born upon Cape Cod | 
and from thence uith his | Hond Father Mr Elisha Paine | 
Removed to Canterbury iu | Connecticut where he prac- | 
tised the law as an Attor. | uith great aprobalion and | 
Fidelity and untill 1712 | from thence became preach- | 
er of ye Gospel and uas | Ordained ye first minister | 
over ye congregational | church of Christ in this | 
Place May HAD 1752 | Thenceforth he rests | 
from his labors. 

Mr. Silvaiuis White "lived in uninterrupted 
health through a ministry of fifty-five years, and 
after a week's illness, died Oct. 22, 1782, his mind 
not enfeebled by age, and his hope strong and cheer- 
ful. H<' lived, honored and revered, happy in the 



MINISTERS. Ill 

aflPections of a large and warmly attacliod congrega- 
tion. He left seven sons and one daugliter ; most 
i of these lived to advanced age. They removed, but 
I his son, Dr. Henry White, remained in his native 
town, and died there at the age of ninety in 1840." 
Some further particulars of his family are given 
in another chapter. 

Mr. White used to n^gard his people as his chil- 
dren and kept an eye upon the reading matter 
which fell into their hands. On one occasion hear- 
! ing of a new book going the rounds, bearing the 
, suspicious title of " The Devil on two Sticks," he 
j took pains to ascertain where it was, and marched 
i off at once to examine and confiscate it ([)olitely of 
I course) should it prove contraband of Church. 
' After the death of Mr. White, in 1782, it ap- 
pears there was a vacancy in the pulpit until 1784. 
; During this interval the pulpit was sup])lied by Mr. 
■ O.sias Eels, and Mr. James Eels, of whom nothing 
i.s known to the writer save their names. Doubt- 
j less they are written in the Lamb's Book of Life 
and they themselves gone to their rest. 

8. JOSHUA WILLIAMS. 
The eighth pastor was the Rev. Joshua Williams. 
Of him Mr. Christopher Foster of Wickapogue has 
recorded: "This is to keep in remembrance that 
! Mr. Williams was ordained May 26, 1785. Mr. 
Buel [of East Hampton] })reached from 2 Cor. 5 : 14." 
' He remained till 1789 and removed. 
I • Another vacancy now occurred till 1792, during 
I which period the puli)it was supplied by Messrs. 
' Strung and Mills successively. 



112 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. > 

9. HERMAN DAGGETT. 

From Dr. Sprague's Annals the following account 
)8 taken : 

He was born at Walpole, Mass., September 11, 
1766. He was a son of Dr. Ebenezer Dagget, a 
highly respectable physician in his day, who was a 
brother of the liev. Naphtali Daggett one of the 
Presidents of Yale College. The first ancestor of 
the family in this country was John Daggett, who, 
a few years after the settlement of Plymouth, came 
and fcouk up his residence on the Island of Mar- 
tha's Vineyard — Dr. Daggett removed with his iam- 
ily from VVal[)ole to VVrentham, when his son Her- 
man was a boy, and there continued in medical 
practice till his death, which occurred Feb. 26, 
1782. The son was at his father's decease between 
fifteen and sixteen years of age. He had the repu- 
tation of being an amiable and discreet youth, and 
withal had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, 
Quickened liowever in his efforts, by his zeal for 
knowledge, lie passed rapidly and successfully 
through his course preparatory to College, and be- 
came a member of Brown's University in 1784. His 
standing there as a scholar was highly respectable, 
and he graduated in 1788. In the second year of 
his codege course, his mind, which had before been 
seriously directed by the influence of a christian 
education, became deeply impressed with .the sub- 
ject of religion as a practical concern ; and it was 
to this period that he referied the commencement of 
his religious life. His ardor in literary pursuits, 
seems not to have been at all repressed by the 



MINISTERS. 113 

change in his moral feelings, though all his faculties 
and attainments were from this time evidently con- 
secrated to the glory of God and the benefit of his 
fellow creatures. Shortly after his graduation he 
placed himself as a theological student under Dr. 
Emmons, who even at that early period, had ac- 
quired the reputation of being very learned in his 
jjrofession. Having spent about a year in his 
preparatory studies, he was licensed to preach by 
the Association, holding its session at Northbridge, 
in October, 1789, and preached for the first time on 
the succeeding Sabbath in Dr. Emmon's pulpit. 
Within a short time after he was licensed, he visited 
Long Island with a view of being engaged as a 
preacher, thinking that the climate would prove 
more congenial to his health than that of New Eng- 
land. Here he was received with more than com- 
mon favor. For a year he supplied the Presbyterian 
congregation at Southold ; and though they gave 
him a unanimous call, yet being unwilling to prac- 
tise on the '' Half-way Covenant,"* he felt con- 
strained to decline it. Thence he was called to 
preach at Southampton, where also he was unani- 
mously invited to the pastorship. This latter invi- 
tation after considerable hesitation, he accepted, 
and was set apart by the Presbytery to the pastoral 
oflace, April 12, 1792. On the 3d of September 

* A very bad practice origiaated early ia New England, (Records 
of Synod of Boston, 1662) of administering the rite of baptism to 
children of baptised persons who make no pretentions whatever to 
personal piety upon their " owning the covenant," though they 
neglected every other ordinance. This was called the "Half-way 
Covenant," and was productive of immense evil ia the churches. 

15 



114 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTOK, 

following, Mr. Daggett was married to Sarah, daugli- 
ter of Col. Matthewson, a respectable and wealthy 
citizen of Providence, R. I. Mrs. Daggett was 
a lady of fine accomplishments and most exemplary 
character, and survived her hnsband many years. 
She died, having never had any children, November 
20, 1843. 

Mr. Daggttt's continuance at Southampton w^as 
for less than four years. Almost immediately after 
his settlement, a difficulty arose between him and a 
part of his people on the subject of the " Half-way 
Covenant," (he being unwilling to practice on that 
principle,) which ultimately extended to many other 
churches, and was the principal, if not the entiie 
cause, of his resigning his charge. He behaved with 
great moderation and dignity throughout the whole 
controversy, and his character for discretion was 
never impugned. It was a sufficient evidence that 
he came out of this controversy at Southampton 
unscathed, that, almost immediately after he was at 
liberty, he was called to the pastoral care of the 
church at West Hampton, a village in the immediate 
neighborhood of the one he had left. Here he con- 
tinued greatly resjDected and beloved by his people 
from September, 1797, to September, 1801, when 
he was dismissed chiefly on account of an inadequate 
support. 

In October following he was installed pastor of 
the church at Fire Place and Middle Island in the 
town of Brookhaven, and preached alternately to the 
two congregations till April 1807, when his health 
had become so far reduced that he resigned his 



MINISTERS. 115 

charw with an intention of never resuniinti' the 
responsibilities of the pastoral office. During the 
eighteen^ years of Mr. Daggett's residence on Long 
Island, and in each of the four several charges with 
which he was connected, he enjoyed a large measure 
of public respect, and his labors were, by no means, 
unattended with success. He was greatly esteemed, 
especially by his brethren in the ministry for the 
wisdom of his counsels, not less than for the con- 
sistency of his general deportment. 

After leaving Lono; Island his health was consid- 
erably improved so that he was able to preach fre- 
quently, and even for a considerable time without 
interruption. For a year he preached and taught 
school at Cairo, Greene Co., N. Y. For some time 
he preached also at Patterson, Putnam Co. : and 
for two years he preached and taught an Academy 
at North Salem, Westchester county. Thence he 
went to New Canaan, Conn., where he took charge 
of an Academy. 

When the Foreign Mission School was established 
by the Am. Board of For. Com. at Cornwall, Conn., 
Mr. Dagget was placed at the head of it. May 6, 
1818. Here a great and important work devolved 
upon lijm of harmonizing and instructing youth of 
all ages from the mere child to manhood, and of 
many and various races. Although but about thirty 
in number, there were natives of Sumatra, China, 
Bengal, Hindostan, Mexico, New Zealand ; of the 
Society and the Marquesas Islands : of the Isles 
of Greece and the Azores : and tJherokees, Choc- 
taws, Osages, Oneidas, Tuscaroras and Senecas of 



116 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

the North American Indians. Here he labored with 
success for nearly six years until 1824. Ill healtli 
then terminated his labors and for the next eight 
years he rested, waiting for his eternal sabbath rest to 
which he was called in peace on the 19th of May, 1832. 

10. DAVID S. BOGART. 

The Rev. David 8. Bogart was the tenth pastor 
and came here soon after Mr. Dagget's dismission. 
He was a graduate of Columbia College, N. Y., 
1790. Mr. Prime (Hist, of L. I.) says : " He was a 
licentiate of the Reformed Dutch Church. Being 
very acceptable to the people, and not having the 
same scruples with his predecessor, he received an 
early invitation to settle. But before the necessary ar- 
rangements were made for his ordination, he received 
an invitation to a Dutch Church in Albany, which 
he accepted, and removed thither. In 1798, this 
church being encouraged to renew their call, Mr. 
Bogart accepted it, and was installed May 31st, 
1798. In 1806 he received a call to the Dutch 
Church in Bloomingdale, and being dismissed Nov. 
6th, he removed to New York. The next spring, 
this church again renewed their call to Mr. B., and 
he was re-installed June 17th, 1807. He was finally 
dismissed April 15th, 1813." 

The next we hear of him is at Wolver Hollow, 
in the town of Oysterbay where he was installed 
pastor of a Dutch church the first sabbath of Sep- 
tember, 1813. In the year 1816 a Dutch church was 
erected in North Hempstead in which he also min- 
istered in connection with the charge at Wolver 
Hollow. Here he labored until his dismission, April 



MINISTERS. 117 

11, 1826, after which he r<>moved to New York 
where he died July lOth, 1839. 

The people of Southampton were very warmly 
attached to him, as is evident from their repeated 
invitations to him to settle among them. He is 
still spoken of by some of his old parishioners in 
terms of the warmest affection. In the pulpit he 
used much action, was full of vivacity, flowery in 
style, and graceful in delivery. 

During the next three years, from 1813 to 1816, 
the pulpit was supplied by Mr. Joshua Hart, Messrs. 
Andrew,? and Fuller, Herman Halsey and Amos 
Bingham, of whom nothing except their names is 
known to the writer. 

Mr. Hart once upset a pedler's wagon which 
was in his way. The next Sunday morning he 
found a note on the pulpit enclosing a pistareen 
with the following distich : 

" Eighteen pence to Mr. Hart 
For overturniag a tinmaa's cart." 

Here is another pulpit token found by a minister 
on his desk one Sabbath morning, an old riddle 
simple enough in itself, but the pertinence of which 
is not so evident. 

* A certain something there may be, 
Which earthly kings may often see ; 
Poor mortal worms may oft descry it. 
But God Almighty can't espy it." 

11. JOHN M. BABBIT. 
The eleventh pastor was the Rev. John M. Bab- 
bit. He was installed Nov. 19th, 1817, and dis- 
missed April 18, 1821. 



118 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Rev. James M. Huntting, of Jamaica, says, in 
reference to that revival in Mr. Babbit's day : "Fori 
some time previous to that revival an increased 
tenderness, fervor and interest in prayer, became 
manifest in the social meetings generally, but seemed 
to me most manifest in one attended Aveekly at Miss 
Harriet Foster's, on the road leading to Bridge 
Hampton and opposite where the Messrs. Elias and 
William Woolley then lived. I had for several 
years greatly desired to see a revival such as I had 
seen at East Hampton, and which left me, much to 
my sorrow, without hope and God in the world. 
Hence I visited all the prayer meetings I could. 
Others noticed it. On one evening, however, when 
I was not present at the meeting above alluded to, 
the joyful news was communicated that Capt. James 
Post and his wife were rejoicing in hope. The next 
morning a young friend of mine hastened to me to 
tell me the joyful news. The whole village soon 
was filled with deep solemnity and on the following 
Sabbath the sanctuary was unusually full, and the 
presence and power of the Holy Spirit were very 
manifest. The prayer meeting that evening was at 
Mrs. Huntting's, and so many came that the store 
and all the rooms adjoining were opened and filled 
with the solemn assemblage. Many not able to find 
seats, stood the whole evening — prominent among 
them, and near the front window, stood Capt. James 
Post. When the meeting closed nearly all remained 
and many approached him to hear him speak of 
Jesus. Meetings became very frequent at once, and 
very full at evening, and the church was opened and 



MINISTERS. 119 

largely attended one afternoon and evening eacli 
week, when the neighboring ministers came to help 
Mr. Babbit, and elders and members from the neigli- 
boring churches were often present, and took part 
in the prayer meetings — j^^^^^i^^^^nt among whom 
was Deacon Stephen Rose, of Bridgehampton. Con- 
versions were constantly occurring among all classes, 
and the church, which I understood consisted of 70 
members when the revival began, received an acces- 
sion of about 45, among whom were nine husbands 
with their wives. Many of the most interesting 
youth of the i)lace had been gathered in Bible 
Classes, which the Pastor conducted so as greatly to 
increase tlie study of the Bible, and make the new 
members of the church able to give a scriptural and 
satisfactory reason of their christian hope. The 
Word of God was the chief theme of conversation 
in the youthful circles I visited, especially the les- 
sons we recited from it weekly to the Pastor and 
Elders. Rev, Dr. McDowell's Question Book was 
used, and some of the class found out and interlined 
the answers with pen and ink, from the beginning 
to the end of that Question Book. The attachment 
of the new converts to each other and to Christ, 
made life pass so sweetly along, that deeji regret was 
often expressed when any of them had to leave tht^ 
place. And on my return to the place to teach 
school, after a year's absence to study in the Academy 
at East Hampton, I found that delightful christian 
grace ' Brotherly love ' delightfully prevalent. So 
it remained during the two and one-half years that 
I remained there in the school." 



120 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

The meetings held frequently, for the special hene^ 
fit of those seeking an interest in Christ and in> 
dulging recently obtained hopes that they had founc 
it, were very useful. The counsel given in them anc 
from house to house, was well adapted to lead all tc 
build their hopes of heaven entirely on Christ, Tht, 
views of the converts were elicited, and when erro- 
neous, thoroughly corrected, and advice given adapt- 
ed to make their practice also correct. Town meet- 
ing day had often been a day for social recreation by 
the young. On its ajjproach that Spring, some ex- 
perienced christians counseled us to take care and 
not let it be injuriously spent. To tlie delight ol 
many it was suggested that the young who were 
not needed among the electors, should meet in the 
north school house for social prayer. The house 
was soon filled and word reached the electors' meet- 
ing of it, and several of the good deacons and 
elders came to the school house and delighted us, 
and seemed delighted themselves, as they addressed 
us and prayed with us. 

The church which had for a long time before 
seemed languishing from that time, grew so that I 
found the last time I preached there, just four times 
as many members in it, i.e., 280 instead of 70. 

May the Lord ever bless that church, as dear to 
my heart then and ever since, and make your anni- 
versary a soul refreshing time. 

(Written in answer to an invitation to be present 
at the celebration of the 225th Anniversary of the. 
settlement of the town, December 13th, 1865.) 

In 1815 Mr. Babbit started the Education Society 



MINISTERS. 121 

of Soutliampton, which his since done much good 
in educating pious young men for the ministry. 

12. PETER H. SHAW. 

The twelftli i)astor was the Eev. Peter H. Shaw, 
who was ordained and installed Sept. 19, 1821, and 
dismissed June 2d, 1829. His grandfather, John 
Shaw, came to this country in 1785, with two 
sons, John and William, the latter of whom was 
the father of Eev, Peter H. The grandfather 
was a ruling elder in the Associate Church in 
Greenock, Scotland, and the two sons, with their 
wives, were members of the same church. They 
settled by the advice of Dr. Witherspoon, of Prince- 
ton, N. J., in Barnet, Vt. His great grandfather. 
Rev. John Shaw, together with Rev'ds Ralph and 
Ebenezer, formed the first Seceding or Associate 
Presbytery of Scotland, The library of this worthy 
minister brought to this country by his son, con- 
tributed much to moulding the mind and shaping 
the principles of his great grandson in his youth. 
He graduated at Dartmouth College. 

Mr, Shaw, while pursuing his education in New 
York, came under the influence of two eminent 
christian ladies, Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Hoffman, 
and from their pious efforts in establishing Sabbath 
schools for the instruction of the poor, he learned 
the value of this institution. On his instalment in 
Southampton, he first instituted the Sabbath school 
here, which, however, soon embraced all the chil- 
dren in the community. He also, in 1826, was the 
originator of the temperance reformation in South- 
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122 HI8T0RY OF S0UTHA31PT0K, 

ampton. Under parental training his niind bad 
been directed to the evils of intemperance, and the 
publication of Dr. Beecher's sermons on this siil)- 
ject, opened the way for action. With characteristic 
modesty lie obtained these sermons, and at his third 
meeting on Sabbath evening, he read them on three 
successive Sabbaths. They caused much excite- 
ment and even opi)Osition. Many said they could 
as well do without bread as ardent si)irits. The 
following spring the Gen. Assembly recommended 
the clergy to preach on the subject. After a reluc- 
tant consent of the session, a day was appointed 
when Mr. Shaw would preach on the evil which 
was increasing in the community to a fearful extent. 
On the day after the apj^ointment was made, he was 
informed that none of the neighboring ministers 
had co-operated with him on the subject, and went 
over immediately to Bridge Hampton, Sag Harbor 
and East Hampton, and asked the clergy to coun- 
tenance him at least so far in the movement as to be 
present. But they all declined — he stood alone, 
the youngest member of the Presbytery, but deter- 
mined, under divine assistance, to go on. He says 
of this — " The day came. It was a cold, uncom- 
fortable day, I think, of November. I had endeav- 
ored to prepare myself with what care I could. As 
I entered the pulpit I saw the house was filled to 
overflowing. Every drunkard was staring me in the 
face. I saw not only that attention, but that feel- 
ing was awake on the matter before me^ I quailed 
under it ; but it was to be met. I never had 
had such a sensation before nor since. But 



MINISTERS. 123 

God sustained me. I preached a sermon in 
the morning- an hour and a lialf in length, 
and in the afternoon better than an hour. 
The object was to present the whole subject so far 
as 1 was able. And so large and attentive an au- 
dience I had not seen before nor since in South- 
ampton. And before the blessing was pronounced, 
a motion was made to adjourn to my house that 
evening, to draw up a constitution and form a so- 
ciety on the jninciple of total abstinence." 

13. DANIEL BEERS. 

Tlie thirteenth pastor was the Rev, Daniel Beers, 
who was installed June 8th, 1830, and dismissed 
April 21st, 1335. On leaving Southampton he was 
called to the Presbyterian Church of Greenport, 
where he was installed, Dec. 2, 1835, and remained 
till Jan. 31, 1839. Thence he removed to Orient, 
preaching, as stated supply, for a number of years, 
having commenced his labors there in Feb., 1839. 
He was a laborious, pains-taking and useful pastor, 
and his labors in Southampton were abundantly 
blessed. It was in some measure owing to his en- 
ergy and ardor in pushing on the enterprise, tliat 
the Academy was erected in 1831. 

U. HUGH N. WILSON, D. D., 

The fourteenth pastor was, and is, the Rev. Hugh 
N. Wilson. His father was James Wilson, Esq., of 
Elizabeth, N. J. He was born May 7, 1813, was 
graduated at the College of New Jersey, in Prince- 
ton, in 1830, and elected tutor there in 1832. He 



124 BISTORT OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

studied theology in the Seminary at Princeton, and 
"was licensed to jH'each by the Presbytery of Eliza- 
beth, April 23, 1835. He commenced his labors in 
the ministry in this place in 1835, and was ordained 
Oct. 7, 1835, and installed June 29th, 1836. In 
1837 he was married to Jane, the daughter of Capt. 
James Post of this village. The pastoral relation 
was dissolved in the spiing of 1852. Sorrowfully 
the people parted with tlieir pastor, for during his 
long ministry of seven years, his labors had been 
abundantly blessed in extensive revivals and large 
accessions to the church. In Aj)ril, 1852, he de- 
parted with the good wishes and jjrayers of his con- 
gregation for his success in a new field of labor in 
Hackettstown, New Jersey. From Hackettstown 
he was called to the Second Dutch Church of New 
Brunswick, whither he went in the year 1858. 
Having been dismissed from this charge, he was in- 
vited to preach as a stated supply, once more to the 
people of his first charge, in Southampton, in the 
summer of 1863. Here he continued with accept- 
ance, the Lord blessing his labors, until a call was 
made out for his settlement, which having accepted, 
he was again installed the second Sabbath of Octo- 
ber, 1864. The sermon of installation was preached 
by the Kev. William H. Dean, of Amagansett, and 
the charge to the people delivered by the same. Rev. 
Charles Sturgis, M. D., gave the charge to the- min- 
ister. 

15. JOHN J. A. MORGAN. 

The Rev, John J. A. Morgan was installed and 
ordained as pastor, Jan. 20, 1853. The installation 



j MINISTERS. 125 

sermon was delivered by Rev. Edward Hopper, of 
' Sag Harbor, the charge to the pastor and ordaining 
prayer by Kev. E. C. Wines, D. D., of East Hamp- 
ton, and the charge to the people by Rev. Mr. Edgar 
of Bridge Hampton. Mr. Morgan was dismissed in 
September, 1855, and ministered to a church as 
pastor in Bridesburg, Pa., afterwards he accepted a 
I call to the pastorate of the church in Hempstead, L. 
j I., where he still remains with much acceptance to 
1 the people of his charge. 

|i , From 1855 to 1863, the congregation had no set- 
) tied pastor, being supplied by various individuals 
j of whom the principal were Messrs. Kennedy and 
Cleveland. 

The Rev. David Kennedy began his labors here 
as stated supply in Feb, 1857, and continued till 
I Jan. 1859. 

The Rev. William Neal Cleveland, remained here 
as stated supply, from Jan. 1859, to August, 1863. 
He was a graduate of Hamilton College and Union 
Seminary of New York City. 

This church has raised up an unusual number of 
ministers, the most of whom are still laboring on 
earth in the Master's cause. Their names are : 
Jonah Fordham, Walter Wilmot, James M. Hunt- 
ting, Robert Shaw, Samuel Hunt, Samuel Hampton 
Jagger, Samuel Huntting, Henry M. Parsons, Ed- 
ward Halsey Sayre, Samuel Edward Heriick and 
George Rogers Howell, and from the Methodist So- 
ciety, Barnabas F. Reeve. 

Dr. Lyman Beecher (Autobiography, vol. 2.- p. 
510) says in reference to Edward Herrick, who was 



126 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

then in Yale College preparing for the ministry, and 
a man of brilliant talent and shining piety: "Oh 
how I remember that day wlien God first flashed 
deep conviction upon my soul, and tore away the 
veil from my heart, and set my sins in order befoie 
me ! I was overpowered, and broken dcnvn with 
grief and confusion : and when I went out of my 
room, whom should I meet ])ut Edward Herrick of 
Southampton, Long Island, who was a student with 
me at Yale College. How he lia})pened to know of 
my feelings, 1 can't tell, unless he saw it in my face, 
but he came up to me, and kindly taking my liand, 
began to talk with me upon tlie subject of religion. 
C)h, he was an angel sent from heaven to my soul! 
You ought all to be ministering spirits too." 

Mr. Herrick was a brother of Mr. Micaiah Her- 
rick, and an early death prevented him from enter- 
ing upon that labor of love wliich he coveted. He 
graduated in the class of 1796. 

REV. PAUL CUFFEE. 

The following account of him is derived substan- 
tially from Prime's Hist, of L. I. He was the sec- 
ond of seven sons of Peter Cuffee, a native Indian 
of the Shinnecock tribe, and grandson, on his mo- 
ther's side, of the Rev. Peter John, who was also a 
Shinnecock and a faithful and successful j)reacher 
tjf the gospel to the native Indians of the Island. 
He was born in the town of Brookhaven, March 4tli, 
1757. His mother was said to have been an emi- 
nently pious woman, and a member of the native 
Indian Church at Wading; River. She being; of Af- 



MINISTERS. 127 

ricaii descent, Paul was, of course, not of pure abor- 
iginal tilood. At an early age he was inden- 
tured as a servant to Major Frederic Hud- 
son, at Wading River, with Avhom he labored 
until twenty-one years of age. Duiiug his min- 
ority he was reckless and much addicted to such 
low pleasures as ]>r(.'sented themselves to him in his 
sphere of society. But it pleased the lord to call 
him to a nobler career. During a revival in 1778-9, 
he was connected, and at once felt an ardent desire 
to labor tor the salvation of his brethren on the Is- 
land. Though possessing a very limited education, 
he early commenced }>reaching — upon what author- 
i ity, or licensed by whom, it does not appear. Re- 
I moving from Wading River he went to Moriches, 
; where he remained about two years : and thence to 
' Poosepatuck, where, in 1790, he was ordained to the 
] work of the ministry, by a council of ministers 
I from the Connecticut Convention. He afterwards 
removed to Canoe Place, which continued to be his 
I residence till his death. 

On the 17th of Oct., 1792, he was admitted a 
member of the " Strict Congregational Convention 
of Long Island," (whatever that was) which had 
been organized about a year before, in fellowship 
with the " Strict Congregational Convention of 
Conjiecticut." 

In 1798, he received a commission from the 
*' New York Missionary Society " to labor with the 
remnants of the Long Island Indians, in whose em- 
ploy he continued till his death, and annually re- 
ceived a liberal compensation. The principal field 



128 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON 

of his labor was Montauk, Canoe place, and Shinne- 
cock, though he occasionally visited Poosepatuck 
and Islip, where there were then a few scattered 
remnants of the natibe tribes. 

He had a retentive memory, a fertile imagination, 
a musical voice, a graceful manner, and, as Mr. 
Prime narrates, a most unaffected humility of heart. 
He died as he had lived under the smiles of his Sa- 
vior. His grave marked with a plain white slab, 
and enclosed with a paling, is on the borders of the 
old country road leading west from Canoe Place, 
and about one mile from that settlement. The 
headstone bears the following inscription : 

Erected | by | The New York Missionary Society 
I In memory of | The Rev Paul Cuffee | An Indian 
of the Shinnecock tribe | who was employed by that 
Society | for the last thirteen years of his life on 
the I Eastern part of Long Island | where he labored 
with fidelity and success. | Humble, pious and inde- 
fatigable I in testifying the gospel of the grace of 
God I he finished his course with joy, | on the | 7th 
of March 1812 | aged 55 years and three days. 

THE METHODIST SOCIETY. 

In 1845 the old Presbyterian church erected in 
1707 was purchased and repaired for a house of 
worship for a Methodist society which was then or- 
ganized. 

This society commencing with small numbers, 
has grown largely, chiefly, however, by immigration, 
and at present is vigorous and prosperous. It has 
done a good Avork in the village, and the relations be- 
tween its members and the older church have always 



CHURCH EDIFICES. 129 

been marked with good feeling. The tolerant spirit 
of the fathers lias descended to the sons, and both 
Churches have labored cordially side by side for the 
promotion of piety and good morals in the com- 
munity. 

CHURCH EDIFICES. 

The first church edifice \vas erected in 1640 or 
1641, within a twelvemonth from the settlement of 
the town. Its site has been a matter of doubt till 
recently, when a deed was discovered in the office of 
the Town Clerk by the j^resent incumbent, Mr. Wil- 
liam S. Pelletreau, for a lot described as the ^' Old 
Meeting House Lot " bounded on the East by Old 
Town Street, and North by the highway ; showing 
the site to be what is now the homestead of Mr. 
Joseph King. This house, according to tradition, 
was thatched, as probably were many of the first 
dwelling houses. 

In 1652, (N. S.) March 20th, at a General Court, 
steps were taken to build a church 30 by 24 feet : 
posts to be set in the ground and to be eight and a 
half feet from the ground to the plate. This was 
the second church. Oct. 14, 1667, John Tennison 
acknowledges receiving part " pay to the building 
of the Meeting House." From the records of the 
town again, [Liber A, No. 2, p. 51] it appears that 
this church was not completed until some time be- 
tween 1669 and 1672. As to the location of this 
church, there is no doubt whatever. It stood on 
what is now the homestead of Mr. Edwin Post. 
Its location is given in a record of a settlement of 
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130 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON", ' 

a dispute between Isaac Willman and the town, on 
Nov. 29, 1672. 

The third was erected in 1707, and stood on the 
southwest corner of the land of the late Captain 
Albert Rogers, facing the main street and the lane. 
(See frontispiece.) It is still standing, and now 
used as a house of worship by the Methodist So- 
ciety, 

The fourth was erected in the year 1843, 

CHURCH EDIFICES OF BRIDGE HAMPTON. 

The first church was erected probably in 1695, 
when the parish of B. H. was organized. It stood 
about half way between the main N. and S. street 
of Sagg, and the street leading from Bull Head to 
the beach. It was situated on a road now closed 
up a little south of the present residence of Hon. 
Henry P. Hedges, 

The second church edifice stood about fifty rods 
from Francis' corner, eastward on the N. side of the 
street, and half in the street and half in the lot. 
The stepping stone before the entrance door still re- 
mains in situ. 

The " New Light" church stood about five rods 
from the main highway, between South and Bridge 
Hampton, on Rufus Rose's lane, and on the west 
side of the lane. 

SAG HARBOR CHURCHES. 

Sag Harbor began to be settled about 1730. No 
full history is given of this place since a Avork giv- 
ing its history in detail is already i3repared by Lu- 
ther D, Cook, Esq. The first church edifice in this 



CHURCH EDIFICES. 131 

village was Presbyterian, and erected in 1766. Mr. 
Foster, of Southampton ; Wm. Hedges, of East 
Hami3ton ; and Malbey Gelston, of Bridge Hamp- 
ton, were appointed at a meeting of its inhabitants 
to solicit aid in their several villages. It stood 
where the present Episcopal church now stands. 
The second Pres. church edifice was erected in 1816, 
and afterwards was sold and became the first church 
of the Episcopal Society. The third was erected in 
1843. There are besides those mentioned, now in 
Sag Harbor, a Methodist and a Roman Catholic, 
and two churches for colored people. 

CHURCH MATTERS. 

A few of the decrees of the General Court will 
throw some light both on ecclesiastical matters and 
on the constant uncertainty and anxiety, if not peril 
of our forefathers while living in proximity to ano- 
ther and a barbarous race. 

"Oct. 29, 1645. Ordered by Generall Court 
that there shall be a cessation of taking armes to 
the Meeting House on the Lord's day from Nov. 1st 
to the first of March ensuing. 

" Dec. 28, 1669. Whereas there was a contest in 
the towne about a piece of ground to set the meeting 
house upon, now at a towne meeting it is staked 
out for that purpose lying upon the front of Isake 
Willman's home lot. (Liber A, No. 2, p. 51.) 

"Aug. 4, 1681. At a Town meeting the build- 
ing of the galleries of the church was postponed 
till another year." 

The salary of the ministers in early times was 



132 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

raised by a pro rata tax as appears l)y the following 
order : 

" At a towne meeting held Feb. 17, 1687, it is 
ordered and Concluded by the generall voate of the 
towne, that if any pson shall faile to pay his Re- 
spective Rates to Mr, Whiteing of his yearly main- 
tenance at or before the tirst of Aprill next ensuing- 
after the said Rates shall become Due that then the 
Constable for the time being shall take by distress 
the said proportions for the year past, of the sca'- 
erale persons so Defective for the use of the said 
Mr. Whiteing which in to be at ye proper cost and 
Charge of those soe behind in their rates. 

THE PARSONAGE. 

" Whereas ye towne of Southampton by unani- 
mous consent did set aparte a Certain parcell of 
Land lying in ye ox pasture unto ye quantity of 
Thirty acres and alsoe purchased of John Cooper a 
bouse lott of three acres more or less Cituate or ly- 
ing against ye meeting house and Builte a house 
thereon which said house and Land is now By Joint 
Consente of ye towne put into ye possession of Mr. 
John Harriman upon termes ye towne and he hath 
agreed on which said house and Lands ware so set 
apparte Dovoted or Dedicated by ye towne to be 
and Remaine for ever to ye use of ye ministry of 
this towne that so from time to time for ever here 
after ye said house and Lands may all ways be in 
Redynes for ye Entertainmente and use of such 
minister or ministers as being called By ye towne 
shall Come and perform ye work of ye ministrie in 



CHURCH EDIFICES. 133 

this place or |>lantatioii and for as much as ye said 
Lands were with much Difficulty spared and pro- 
cured By ye towne for ye said use and if ye towne 
should Be frustrate of theire said end By ye said 
House and Land Being hereafter Disposed of other- 
wise it is not to be Conceved in ye eye of reason 
that theire should probably be found in this towne 
an other suply for the ministry that would be ac- 
ceptable to or convenient for any minister that 
should come to Inhabite and officuate here, wee ye 
Inhabitants of this said towne of Southampton doe 
thirefore heare by Declaire order unanimously agree 
and vltimately Conclude that ye said house and 
Lands sequestered or set apparte as afForesaid shall 
according to ye Reall Intente of ye towne Be and 
Reinaino from time to time and for ever to ye use 
of ye ministry of our said Towne as ye providence 
of God shall hereafter dispose ministers of ye word 
successively unto us and iioe Inhabitante of this 
place shall ever at any time assume jiower to Dis- 
pose of ye said house or Lands or any parte there 
off from ye said use of ye ministry without ye full 
Consente of every Inhabitant of ye towne that then 
shall be surviving and this present agreemente and 
Instrumente to be Binding and of full fource to us 
our heirs and successors for ever in witness whereof 
we have heare unto set our hands this 12 day of 
Aprill Anno Domini 1675. 

"Thomas Halsey, John Cooper, Arthur Howell, 
James Herrick," (and 46 others.) 

The town set apart also land in Sagg for the par- 
sonage, when Rev. Mr. Ebenezer White was called 



134 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

as the first minister of the Bridge Hampton parish. 
Some years later in March 20, 1712 (or 13,) the 
following explicit order was i)romnlged : 

" Wee, the layers out that are hereunto suh- 
scribed do make our return of Laying out the twenty 
Acres of Land granted by the town to Bridge 
Hampton for the use of a presby terian ministry and 
noe other." 

By this it appears the people at Southampton 
called themselves Presbyterians, and even from the 
beginning they had ruling elders in the church as 
witness. Liber A, No. 1, p. 39, where John Cooper 
is named and styled as such in 1644, 

The Presbyterian Quarterly of Jan. 1859, as cited 
by Dr. Stiles in his History of Ancient Windsor, 
says on this point : 

"As to the constitution of the individual church 
in the early history of New England, it was Pres- 
byterian rather than Congregational, This was the 
case with the mother Church of Leyden, of which 
Robinson was Pastor, and Brewster a Ruling Elder. 
They seem to have borrowed their ideas of the 
proper and scriptural organization of an individual 
church, with scarce a modification from the writings 
of Calvin, In the French Reformed Church, as is 
well known, the principles of the Genevese Reformer 
were more perfectly and constantly carried out than 
in Geneva itself, and it is to the French Reformed 
Churches that the Leyden Church refers as the pat- 
tern from which they had drawn. In response to 
certain honorable members of his Majesty's Privy 
Council, Robinson and Brewster reply under their 



CHURCH EDIFICES. 135 

own signatures to the eliect that ' touching tho ec- 
clesiastical ministry, namely, of pastors for teaching, 
elders for ruling, and deacons for distributing the 
Church contribution, as also for two sacraments, 
etc., we do wholly and in all points agree with the 
French Reformed Churches, according to their pub- 
lic confession of faith.' They add that some small 
differences were to be found in their practice, but 
such only as were ' in some accidental circumstances' 
and ' not at all in the substance of the thingrs ' Yet 
in specifying these differences, they say, ' We choose 
none for governing elders, but such as are apt to 
teach.' ' Their elders are annual, etc., ours perpet- 
ual.' ' Our elders administer their office publicly, 
theirs more privately.' These are the only matters 
of diiference between themselves and the French 
Reformed Chuvches, to which they refer in connec- 
tion with the form of government or the constitu- 
tion of the individual church. * "••'■■ "••'•" In ac- 
cordance with such views the Leyden Church was 
constituted. They were of course reflected in the 
Constitution of the Plymouth Church in this coun- 
try. '- ■'■' Bailie says, the settlers did ' agree to 
model themselves (i. e., the people of Hampton, 
Mass.,) after Mr. Robinson's j3attern,' and Cotton 
speaks of ' the Plymouth Church helping the first 
comers in their theory, by hearing and discovering 
their practice at Plymouth.' '■'•" '•■" * The Cam- 
bridge Platform (1648) thus recognizes the Presby- 
terian Constitution of the Church. It says : ' Of 
elders some attend chiefly to the ministry of the 
Word, as the pastors and teachers ; others attend 



136 HISTORY OF S0UTHA5IPT0N. 

especially unto rule, who are therefore called ridimj 
elders.' Again ; ' The ruling elder's office is dis- 
tinct from the office of pastor and teacher.' His 
' work is, to join with the pastor in those acts of 
spiritual rule which are distinct from the ministry 
of the Word and Sacraments.' Among the speci- 
fied duties, are admission of members ; convening 
the church ; ' preparing matters in private ' for 
more speedy dispatch ' etc. * •••■ ■•■■ In accord- 
ance with these ])rinciples the greater part of the 
early New England churches were established. 
v -:;: ;;:■ Qf |}jg importance of the eldership, 
Hooker speaks in very emphatic language : ' The 
elders must have a Church within a Church, if they 
would preserve the peace of the Church. Nor would 
lie allow questions to be discussed before the whole 
body, till the proi)er course liad been resolved upon 
in the Presbytery or session of the elders.' " 

MANNER OF SEATING PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH OF 
BRIDGE HAMPTON. 

About sixty years ago the pews of the church 
were free, but occupied, according to this regulation. 
Men called Assessors, were appointed to seat the 
people in rank of age. The oldest and most ven- 
erable in the consjrearation were seated in the front 
seats — next the less old, and so on till all the seats 
below were occupied. In the galleries by common 
consent, a similar custom prevailed. The young 
men held the front and the boys were beliind them 
diminishing in age as they approached the walls. 
Thus a lad beginning with the back seat next to the 
wall would, if he lived to old age, by gradual pro- 



CHURCH EDIFICES. 137 

motion, have worked his way tliroiigh the whole 
church, sitting in each rank successively as death 
thinned the ranks before him. The same regulation 
obtained with the female part ot the congregation. 
A wife always sat in a seat of equal rank with her 
husband, but always on her side of the house. It 
was not till pews were annually rented that the 
sexes were allowed to be seated together in the same 
seats. 

In the Southampton church the old men sat in 
side seats on each side of the pulpit with the small 
boys in their front. It was not uncommon for an 
unlucky boy at play to be arrested by a vigorous 
box of the ear by one of the old men behind ■ 
him. 

" At a Towne meeting November the 5 1679 It is 
ordered that Mr. Justice Topping with the Consta- 
ble and Overseers attended by Henry Pierson shall 
appoynt all the Inhabitants of this Towne there 
proper and distinct places in the meeting house on 
the Lord's day to prevent disorder." 

Now-a-days this would be the best means to cre- 
ate it. 

, The order of seating has not been handed down, 
yet something is known. The pulpit was very high, 
supported by a shaft and projected in front, leaving 
directly under it a space large enough for a pew 
called the deacons' seat, in which these officers were 
seated in dignity, overlooking the congregation. 
Directly in front of them was the communion table, 
between which, and the congregation, sat the magis- 
trates. 

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138 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

The clock in the church was made in New Haven 
about the year 1765. 

CHURCH BELLS. 

The following correspondence in relation to the 
first two bells from the Records is given as a 
curiosity : 

East Hampton July ye 25th 1693. 

Received then one bord the good shipe friends 
Adventure of Mathew Howell a small Church Bell 
waighing about sixty five pound. By order and 
for the proper accompt and Risque of the Town of 
Southampton aforsaid which I promise to deliver to 
Mr Walter Mico marcht In London he paying for 
fraight the danger of ye Seas and winds only ex- 
cepted having given two Recepts of this tenure and 
deate the one being accomplished the other is voyed. 
I say Received p mee. 

Cypkian Southalk. 



London, Feb. 25, 1693-4. 
Mr. Matthew Howell, — 

Sir according to your Desire I have caused a New 
Bell to be cast & itt proues of a good sound but when 
I came to enter itt I found itt to be prohipe^tted uth 
I could not ship uthout ye Lord Tresurers uarratt 
uch uil be chargeable. There is now a Bill in the 
house of Parlamett for ye free Exporteing of Bells 
& I beleave itt uill be enacted if not I will find a 
uaye to hang itt in Som Ship & send it you that 
way. '■•■ '-•■ * 

Walter Mico. 



CHURCH EDIFICES, 139 

London, May 19, 1694. Mr. Walter Mico writes 
to Matthew Howell that according to his order of 
July 25, 1693 for a new bell, he had one cast and 
ready to ship in Nov 1693 but could not, it being 
prohibited by law. But an act for exportation of 
bells having since passed, he shipped it on that day 
May 19, 1694 on board the European, John Foy 
Master. The bell weighed 173 lbs and the bill waa 
as follows : 

Bell weighing 173 lbs 14d per lb £10 01 10 
Clapper & Screw 11 lbs 7d per lb 00 06 05 
All other charges 01 04 11 



11 13 02 

Credit for old bell 54 lbs 9d per lb 02 08 00 



09 05 02 

The bell was hung in the church in 1695. It 
was carted from "Northwest" near E. Hampton, 
by Samuel Cooper. 

The bell in the old church in 1843 weighed be- 
tween 300 and 400 lbs. 

In 1843 a bell was purchased for the new church, 
but broke within two years, and another was then 
obtained weighing about 800 lbs. 

A Mr. Boyer came over from Havre, in France, 
with or after Elias Pelletreau, and lived in South- 
ampton. He was a merchant, and boarded with the 
Palletreau family in the year 1729, he had made 
and presented to the church two heavy communion 
cups of silver with the simple inscription engraved 
upon them, " S. church, 1729." Ten years later two 



140 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

others were made with the following inscriptions : 
on one, " Sought Hampton Church ;" on tlie other, 
" For the church of Bought liamton, 6 Decemhr 
1739." The inscription on the tomhstone of Mr. 
Boyer in the Northend burying ground, is as fol- 
lows : "Here lyes ye body of Mr Ste])hen | Bowyer 
of Arver in France who | came to this place in ye 
year 1686 \ Departed this life Oct ye 24 | 1780 aged 
73 years." 

Brief and simple as this epitaph is, it evidently 
contains three mistakes ; 1st, no Frenchman could 
have written his name Bowyer — we must strike out 
the 20 as a corruption of his English friends. 2dly, 
doubtless his residence in France was in Havre, not 
Arver, and thirdly, if lie died in 1780, aged 73, he 
could hardly have come to this place in 1686. It 
is possible his father, of whom we know nothing, 
emigrated with Mr. Pelletreau from France, and the 
son Stephen followed Francis, the son of Elias Pel- 
letreau, from New York City to Southampton. 

" 1645. Ordered by General Court that each 
family by turns shall svveej) out the Meeting House 
every week, and also from the 1st October to 15tli 
April, make a lire in it on Sabbath morning. A 
failure to do this to be fined 2s and 6 pence. 

" May 14, 1649. It is ordered by Generall Court 
that the inhabitants of this towne being by the 
clarke of the band divided into two parts shall ac- 
cordinge to the sayd Clark's appoyntment, bring 
their armes to the Meeting House every Lord's day, 
that is to say, the one half the one Sabbath, & the 
other half the other next after & yt every man shall 
be provided with 4 charges of powder & shot or 



SCHOOLS. 



141 



balles, hee that fayleth after due warning is to pay 
to the clarke six pence for every fault accordinge to 
the former order 3rd July 1648." 
SCHOOLS. 

From the earliest period of the settlement to this 
day, a deep interest has always been felt in sustain- 
ing the public schools. The character of the origin- 
al settlers itself secured this in their generation, and 
their descendants appreciating the importance of 
education, have always sustained the teacher. Some 
of the earliest records discovered, together with 
others, are here presented. 

" 1663, Sept. 22. Jonas Holds worth is engaged 
to keep school for two years at 35 lbs. i»er year. 

" 1664, Sept. 5. Ordered to build a school house 
20 feet long and 15 feet wide before winter at the 
town's charge. 

" 1794. John Mowbray engages to teach six 
months from the 1st of May to the 1st of Novem- 
ber, for 12 shillings per ' scholler,' teaching from 8 
o'clock till eleven in the morning and from one 
o'clock till five in the afternoon." 

The school house in use for the latter half of the 
eighteenth century, and even later, was a large one 
story building with a wide, open fireplace in each 
end. Capacious as the fire places were in the cold 
winter days, they were piled high with hickory logs, 
and under the genial influences thus diff'used, our 
grandfathers and grandmothers played, or studied 
the old school books that now lie dusty and mouse- 
eaten in strange nooks and corners, in ancient houses 
with other garret trumpery. 



1^ HISTORY OF SOUTHAJIPTOK. 

About the year 1786, t}>e peoi)le began to agitata 
the question of building an Academy here, as one' 
was much needed for all the surrounding country. 
At that time there was not a high school on the Is- 
land, at which boys could be fitted for college, and 
they were comparatively few in New England. To 
undertake this enterprise so soon after the close of 
the war, when this town like the whole country had 
been drained of its resources, certainly shows a high 
appreciation of the importance of learning. But 
the undertaking was thwarted by a spirit of rivalry 
in the sister town of East Hampton, and by the 
superior enterprise of Dr. Buel, who, learning the 
purposes of the Southampton people, raised his sub- 
scriptions, and promptly obtained a charter from the 
State Legislature for the Clinton Academy. This 
was in 1787. Another Academy was chartered on 
the same day, but judging from the manner in which 
the East Hampton Enterprise sped, Clinton Academy 
must have been the first incorporated, and so entitled 
to the honor it has often claimed, of being the first 
incorporated Academy in the State of New York. 

However, the growth of the town at last made it 
necessary to erect a suitable building for a high 
school, and in the year 1831, such a one was erect- 
ed, and for the most has met with a fair degree of 
prosperity. Since its erection it has exercised a 
marked and most beneficial influence on the com- 
munity. 

This Academy met with a remarkable accident 
in the summer of 1853. A thunderstorm was pass- 
ing over the village, and a heavy bolt of lightning 



SCHOOLS. 143 

struck it about seven o'clock in the morning. The 
charge divided, part passing down the chimney at 
one end, and on the steeple at the other. The 
chimney rested on two tough white oak posts on the 
ground floor ; one of these posts was riven and split 
into whips, which were scattered over the room. 
The charge which struck the steeple also divided — 
part passing directly downwards, tumbling the 
greater part of the steeple to the ground, tearing 
holes in the floors of the second and first stories and 
thence passing into the cellar — the other part of the 
charge running down the roof, hurled shingles at 
least twelve rods, and pushed off" by main force at 
the north-east corner, the upper portion of the 
-north side of the building for a little space. In the 
upper room now called the Academy Hall, neaily 
all the panes of glass in the windows were burst 
outwards by the rarified and expanded air. 

Since its establishment eleven young men of the 
village have received their preparatory course within 
its walls, ten of whom graduated at various colleges, 
and one other had not yet finished his collegiate 
.course. Of this number five became ministers of 
ithe gospel, one of whom, the Rev. Samuel Huntting, 
died while pastor of the Presbyterian church at 
East Hampton. 



CHAPTER VIIL 

VARIOUS LOCALITIES RESIDEiNCES OF SET- 
TLERS CHAjVGES of residence RKSI- 

DENCES IN 1865. 

It is to be lamented that the language of the ab- 
origines, the Shinnecock tribe of Indians, passed 
away and was forgotten before some one arose to 
perpetuate it on record. However, it is perpetuated 
in the names of various localities, though their sig- 
nification is lost. Other local names on the town 
records are now no longer known, and still others 
exist whose origin is obscure. Some changes too in 
the laying out of streets and the configuration and 
state of the land have taken place, since the first 
settlers erected their houses in the forest. The 
ocean has made considerable encroachments uj)on the 
land during this period, variously estimated from 
forty to eighty rods. The town pond extended as a 
creek and swamp, at least as far as Huntting's lane. 
A body of water large enough to be called a pond, 
(Frog Pond) was situated south of the village, 
where now there is only dry land. It was doubtless 
in still remoter antiquity, like the succession of ponds 
south of the town, an arm of a large bay extending 
along the coast, and separated from the ocean by a 
range of sand hills. One lane or street has been 



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VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 145 



Opened, and another closed — the former Job's lane, 
or the Academy lane, which was originally a portion 
of the Sayre homestead, and was given to the town 
for a public highway by Job Sayre, the son or grand- 
son of Thomas Sayi^, the fii-st settler of that name. 
The only way of reaching the fertile land of the 
"Necks" was originally around the corner ojjposite the 
house where Mr. Age Halsey now resides ; there very 
soon after the settlement, Huntting's lane was laid 
out as a highway, and finally the grant of Job Sayre 
succeeded for the same purpose. The first settlers 
seem to have occupied chiefly the land in the south 
part of the village, in order to place the barrier of a 
pond between them and the Indians. 

The Indian name of the Island was Paumanake, 
and of the town was Agawam, said to signify abun- 
dance of shells : that is of the shells of which their 
wamjmm was made. This name Agawam has been 
given to another beautiful pond of water lying in 
the woods between the village and North Sea, east 
of the highway. Another sheet of water west of 
the same highway is now known as Lake Minnesunk, 
(or Queen of the Waters.) 

Mill Neck was the local name of a tract of land 
about two miles eastward of the village, now known 
as Water mill. 

Eastward of this was a strong settlement from 
about 1660, and later, called Sagabonach, and now 
known by the name of Sagg. 

In some of the public documents of the town, we 
notice Shelter Island mentioned under the name of 
Farret's Island. 
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146 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

The Indian name of Canoe Place is variously 
spelled as Niamuck and Niamug. 

Pondqnogiie appears to be a corruption of the 
original Indian appellation Paugonquague, and 
Quaquanantuck is now abbreviated and known as 
Quogue. 

GREAT AND LITTLE PLAINS. 

These names frequently appear on the early 
records, and as they are now no longer known as 
distinctive names of any locality, it may be worth 
while to describe the tracts of land so denominated 
by our ancestors. The Great Plains or the General 
Field, as it was also sometimes called, were bounded 
on the North by Captain's neck lane. East by the 
town pond, south by the beach, and west by Tay- 
lor's creek ; thus it included First, Cooper's, Hal- 
sey's, and Captain's necks. 

The Little Plains were bounded north by Frog 
pond lane, south by the beach, east by old town 
pond, and west by the town pond. The following 
report of the execution of an order of the General 
Court will throw light on this matter, while for other 
reasons it contains items of interest. It is to be re- 
membered that some of the land therein mentioned 
now lies doubtless outside of the breakers in the 
Atlantic ocean. 

According to an order established by the General 
Court, held in Southampton upon the 5 th of March, 
A. D. 1651, the little plain was "layed forth in di- 
visions for the inhabitants of the said town by 
Richard Odell appointed for that duty, who layed 
forth the said land in three several dividences, one 



VARIOUS LOCALITIES. 



147 



of every three making- two acres, which two acres 
lying in the three dividences aforesaid was layed out 
to an hundred and fifty pound lott, the said divi- 
dences being drawn by the Inhabitants by lottery 
upon the 20tli day of March, 1651. 

" The first dividence bounds with his front upon 
the pond at the West end of the said })lain, only a 
cart way being left between the said front and the 
pond, the rear being butted by the side of the first 
lott of the said dividence along the west of the 
plain, every lot of the said first dividence facing ac~ 
cording to the mark on the stakes to Mr. Smith's 
home lot being Northward of the said plain — half 
an acre in this dividence was layed to every hundred 
and fifty pound Lott." 



Mr. John Gosmer, 
Mr.Rob'tFordham, 
Mr. Edward Howell, 


Lb 
400 
300 
350 


No 

17 

3 

11 


No 
32 

4 
19 


Robert Merrin, 
Wm. Browne, 
Thomas Hildreth. 


Lb No No 
150 21 
100 37 


and to have a 5 
son Edward's lot 


out of his 


John Cooper. Sen.. 
Richard Post, 


150 9 
100 40 


Edward Howell, 
William Rogers, 


100 
150 


38 
16 




Thomas Cooper, 
Mr. Thirston Rainer, 


150 12 
200 33 


Capt Thos Topping, 
Jonas Wood, 


300 
150 


18 
28 


27 


Joseph Rainer, 
Thomas Burnett, 


100 5 
100 30 


Joshua Barnes, 
Ellis Cook, 


150 

100 


2 
26 




Richard Barrett, 
Mr. Edward Joanes, 


150 22 
150 34 


Mr. J. Stanbrough, 
John White, 
Thomas Peale, 
John Howell. 


150 
150 
100 
200 


20 
15 
13 
24 




Mr. Richard Odell, 150 41 
Richard Mills, 100 29 
Thomas Sayre, 200 25 
a fifty out of Richard Mills' 


and a fifty from Isaac 

Willman. 
Henry Pierson, 150 
Thomas Halsey, 300 
Isaac Willman 100 


8 
14 
10 


23 


lot. 
John Jessup, 
Mr. Smith. (Richard 
Thomas Goldsmith, 
John Loom, 


100 39 
150 36 
100 21 
100 6 



148 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON'.. 

OX PASTURE. 

This wa» in two divisions, Boftlj ami gofitli, a?i<- 
must have heeii so tlesignatetl father latev than the 
g,Teat and little plains^ since the so^irthein division 
of the ox pasttire trench e<l upon the Boithein limits- 
of the great field. The south division lay between 
Cooper's and Hal-sey'n neck lanes on the south, and' 
Captain's neck lane on the north. The north di- 
vision lay between Captain's neck lane on the south, 
and the main highway to Shinnecock on the north 
— out of which tract, however, must be excluded 
thirty acres of parsonage land. The following order 
will add some light on this point, while it shows 
also that the eastern boundary of the ox j)a8ture, 
both north and south divisions, was the town pond. 

It was ordered " to erect a five rail fence to begin 
at a branch or creek of water belonging to Shinne- 
cock bay, which divides the land of Major John 
Howell and Isaac Halsey Sr., at the west end of 
said plains, (Great) and so to run said fence East- 
ward on the North side of the highway which di- 
vides the North and South division commonly known 
by the name of the Ox pasture division, until it 
comes to range with the west line of ye parsonage 
land, and then to turn Northward to the So. West 
corner thereof, and thence on Eastward upon the 
South line of both pieces of said parsonage land 
unto the town pond, which fence is to be the north 
bound of said general field and east bounded by the 
said pond." 

RESIDENCES EARLY AND PRESENT. 
No one of our ancestors has done for SouthamiJ- 
ton what Col. Lyon Gardiner did for the town which 



RESIDENCES OF SETTLERS. 149 

lie a^isisted to bring into existence, viz., leave for 
future generations a record of the residences of the 
orio-inal settlers. Many changes in the course of 
two hundred and twenty-five years have, of course, 
obliterated some of the old landmarks, and the dif- 
ficulty in no small one, to reconstruct at this time 
the town of 1650. Yet some waymarks are found 
scattered all along, by which, with other assistance, 
much can be done in solving this problem. The 
list of inhabitants in 1649, 1657, and 1698, which 
have been given, will go far to confirm and com- 
plete the results of investigation of the towai records. 
We take the following as sure and reliable starting 
point ; the facts are ascertained beyond all dispute. 

ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE TOWN. 

Obadiah Rogers lived on the residence of Capt. 
Albert Rogers, deceased, and this homestead has al- 
ways been in the Rogers family. 

Henry Pierson lived on the opposite corner where 
the church now stands, or it may be a little to the 
south on the homestead now owned by Mr. Lewis 
Hildreth. 

Isaac Willman lived next north of the second 
church and on the home lot now belonging to Mr. 
Edwin Post. 

James Herrick lived on what is now the home- ^ 
stead of Mrs. Hannah, widow of Capt. James Post. 
This house was probably a little south of the dwell- 
ing of Mrs. Post. 

Thomas Topping, Sen., lived on what is now^ the 
residence of Mr. Alb(3rt Foster. 



150 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE STREET. 

Edward Howell lived (probably) near where once ' 
stood the house of Mr, William P. Herrick — pro- 
bably in the same house : — his homestead was bound- 
ed on the north by that of Thomas Sayre, and south 
by the parsonage which now is. 

Thomas Sayre resided where his descendants still 
live, north of the Academy, and probably in the 
same dwelling, though one half of the house was 
added many years after his death. 

The Jones family resided on what is now the resi- 
dence of the heirs of Mr, Wm. T. Jones, and their 
homestead embraced also that of Mr. Edward Hunt- 
ting, deceased. 

Besides these a large number of residences of a 
later period have been ascertained from the town 
records, the result of which investigations will ap- 
pear at length in the following plot of the main 
street of the village. 

REMARKS IN EXPLANATION OF THE FOLLOWING PLOT. 

The relative width of the lots fronting the main 
street, is very nearly preserved in the plot, from Gin 
Lane to the Meeting House Lane, on both sides of 
the street : but from this point northwards no such 
accuracy has been attempted, from want of sufficient 
data, and the design is merely to give the relative 
location of the residences in early and later times. 

The placing of a [] in a lot is also not designed 
to mark the position of the house in that lot, but 
to indicate simply the fact of a residence somewhere 
in the same. 



RESIDENCES OF SETTLERS. 151 

To the north, say of Robert Woolley, in 1648, 
the homesteads appear to have been larger than 
those south of this point, and therefore it has been 
impossi])le to indicate the exact locality of some 
who there resided. It is known that north of Man- 
assah Kemp ton, on the same side of the street, lived 
James Hampton, who gave his homestead to his 
son-in-law, James Mappam. North of him lived 
Joshua Barnes. North of Barnes lived John Bishop 
iu 1683. 

After every attempt to make an accurate analysis 
of all the data furnished by the records, perfect cer- 
tainty cannot in all cases be obtained — yet in the 
main the plot is believed to be correct in the loca- 
tion of the homes of our ancestors. 

The west fork in the main street beginning at the 
residence of the late Capt. Austin Herrick, seems to 
have been laid out in 1712. 

Previous to this the line on the west side of the 
street must have run directly from the South east 
corner of the burying ground to the South east 
corner of the homestead of Capt. A. Herrick. 



152 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

little: i*L^vi::vjsi- 



GIN LANE. 


JSJOXJ 


n 

b 

H 

<! 


Edward 

Sayre, 1865. 






Edward 
Sayre, 1865. 


Jonathan Ray nor, 
[] 1676. 


Richard Howell. 


1 

Ipaac 
Foster, 1865. 


Joseph Raynor, 
[] 1676. 


Arthur Howell, 1675. 
Beu Davis, 1675, [] 
Richard Howell, Sr. 1676. 


Isaac 

Foster, [] 1865. 


Richard Howell, Sen. 1676, 
Jedediah Howell, [] 
Christopher Foster, 1768, 
Joseph Foster, 1708. 


Nathan Jagger, 
Joseph Foster, 1698, 
Daniel Foster, 1708. 


Wm. S. 
Pelletreau, 1865. 


John Howell, 1708. 

[] 


Edward Howell, 2d, 1657. [] 
Edward Howell, 3d, 1699. 


Barney 
Green, [] 1865. 


John Jessup, 
t] 1657. 


TOLLSOME 


I.ANE. NOB 



THE SETTLERS, 



153 



Tli. 



H 



ROAD TO THE BEACH. pB- 


[] Richard Smith, 1649, 
Joseph Goodale, * 1698. 


Edward 

Sayre, 1865. 




□ Nicholas 
White, 1865. 




[]Bea Marshall,* 1720. 


[] Thurston Raynor, l(i60. 


Thomas Halsey, Jr., ' 
O Ifir.T. 


Nicholas 
White, 1865. 


Jonathan Raynor, 
CZl 1657. 


Nehemiah Howell, 
a 1657. 


Francis 


HORSEMILL LANE. 


Thomas Halsey Ist, and 
son. Isaac Halsey 
a 1657. 

Widow Norris. 


Cook, 1865. 


* The probable but not absolutely certain residence. 

XH. 

20 1 








154 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



»«»OX7 



TOILSOME LANE. 




William 

Mackie, 

1865. 




1657, Thomas Goldsmith, [] 
Edward Howell, 2nd, 
Joseph Howell, 1699. 


Charles 
Howell. 

1865. 






Windmill. 
[] 1650. 


Albert 
Foster, 
1865. 






Thomas Topping, o 
1657-1698. i 
Wick family, 1700, j 
Matthew Rogers. 1830. 


Mrs. Hannah 

Post [] ise:). 


-■ 




James Herrick. 

[] 1650. 
William Herrick, 
1650, 
[] 2nd Chnrch, 
Isaac Willinan [] 1650. 


Edwin Post, 
[] 1865. 


George 
Herrick, 
[] 1865. 






Ellis Cook, 
Thomas Stephens. [] 


George Herrick, 
1865. 






Zerubbabel Phillips, 
Thomas Parvine, 1698, 
John White (very early,) 
Edward Huntting, 1840. 


Mrs. E. P. Herrick, 


1865 


• 




Lewis 

Hildreth, 

[] 1865. 






Henry Pierson, 
[] 1650. 
Church 


1843. 




MEETING HOUSE LANE. ' 



!> 

H 

% 

(JO 

id 



TVOI* 



THK SETTLERS. 



155 



xn. 



Adonijah Raynor, 

[] 1737. 
Major John , , 


F. Cook, 
[] 1865. 


^ Howell, 1657, * 
.Topoph Howell, 1737, 
Silas Howell, 1780 


E. Say re, 
[] 1865. 


Joseph 

Fordham. 
[] 1698. 


Wm. Mackie, 
[] 1865. 


Jonah Fordham, 
[] 1698. 


John Allen, 
[] 1865. 


1 

John Cooper, 
; [] 1678. 


Henry White, 
[] 1865. 


[] Parsonage. 


[] Parsonage, 
1865. 


Nathan Herrick. [] 1748. 




[] Edsvard Howell, 1st. 

1648. 
j Edmund Howell, 1656. 


Philetus 
Plerson, 
[] 1865. 


; Edward Howell, 1st, 1640, 
1 Edmund Howell, 1660-96 

Nathaniel Howell, 

Stephen Reeves, 


Henry 
Reeves, 
[] 1865. 


Edward Howell, Ist, 1640, 
Hugh Gelston, 
Reeves. 


Edward 

Reeves 

[] 1865. 



H 



% 



H 



JOB'S LANE, OR ACADEMY LANE. 



* Not certain whether Major John Howell rosided in 1657, on 
the lot of F. Cook or E. Sayre. 



156 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



SOXJ 



1 

1 


Albert Rogers, 
heirs [] 1865. 


William Rogers, 

Obadiah Rogers, 

1648. □ 


i 


Charles 

Howell, 

1865. 


Joseph Post. 1657. [] 

Edward Howell, 2d, 1688. 

Jonah Howell, 1699. 

Zebuluu Howell. 1775. 




Josiah Foster, 1865. 


[] Samuel Butler □ 1690. 




Ben H. Foster, 
[] 1865. 


Thos. Burnett. 
[] 1657. 




Abraham Cooper. 




C. Pelletreau, 

1860. 
W. S. Pelletreau. 

1865. [] 


John Topping, 
John Gosmer, 1680. [] 
John Woodruff, 




F. S. Sayre, 
1865. O 


John Foster, 1657, 
Abraham Cooper. 1738. o 
Samuel Huntting. 1739. 


H 


-^ ROAD TO BRIDGE HAMPTON. 


< 


Rhodes, 1864. □ 




Wm. Huntting. 
□ 1865. 


L_i Jonas Bower, 1657. i 




George Post, 
n 1865. 


Robert Woolley, 
□ 1657. 




George Post, 
1865 


Manassah Kempton 
(Pope's Lot.) 




G. Post. 1865. 


J. Rogers, 1860. □ 




Wm. 8. Pelletreau, 
a 1865. 


James Hampton, 

'— ' James Mappam. 




Jesse lialsey, 
□ 1865. 






Wm. R. Post, 
O 1865. 




Joaathau Fithian, 
O 1865. 






J. Fithian, 

1865. 


IVOH 



THE SETTLERS. 



157 



TM. 


Thomas 
Sayre 1648. 
[] 


Wm. N. Sayre, 
[] 1865. 


[] H. Rhodes, 1840. 


C. Parsons, 1865. 


1755, Wm. White, 1698, , 
1764, Zeb. Cooper, Maltby. LJ 


E. Halsey, 1865. 


p, Ephraira White, 1698, 
l-J Johu Halsey, 1756, 


D. Fordham, 
1865, [] 


•Joha (Josmer, 1659, 
John Topping:, 1660, 


Fred. Howell, 
[] 1865. 


,, Isaac Halsey. 1698. 
•■J Chapman family, 1840, 


Wm. T. Jones, 1860. 
[] 


Jones family, 

[];1648. 


Wm. T. Jones, 
1 860. [] 


r^ Jones as above, 
lJ Matthew Howell. 


r, Ed. Huutting, 
l-J 1840. 


HUNTTING'S LANE. 




[] John Jagger, 


G. White, 
[] 1865. 


£ T ;= h- • 


Wm. Russell, 
Ohadiah Sale, 
C.iieb Heathcote 


Burying 
Ground. 


'ick, 

reet here 
st and di 


John Laughton, 
[] 


Wm. Fowler, 
[] 1865. 


turns to 
rides into t 


John Laiighton, 

Harriet R. Halsey, [] 1865. 



TH. 



21 



158 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Cornelius Voncke, a Dutch shoemaker lived where 
Mr. Thomas Warren lives. He died, and his wife 
sold the homestead to Edward White, June 7, 1682, 
and on June 14, 1682, Edward White sold the 
same to William Mason. 

North of him on the west street ruiming hy the 
swamp in 1679, lived Richard Painter ; and north 
of his house a road was laid out in 1682, running 
at an angle of about 60° from this street to the hill 
street or main highway to the hills of Shinnecock, 

West of Voncke, from 1646 to 1684, Thomas 
Cooper resided. 

John Tennison for a time, about 1668, resided on 
what is now the corner lot of Capt. Thomas Royce 
on the hill. 

South of this, about where is the residence of 
James Pierson, deceased, in 1698, lived James Cooper. 

Thomas Goldsmith removed to Killingworth, Ct., 
where his uncle John Goldsmith resided. 

John Ogden removed to Elizabeth, N. J., before 

1667. 

Obadiah Sale removed to Boston. 

Edmund Howell, in a deed of date about 1696, is 
spoken of as then residing in Cape May Co., N. J. 

Thomas Hildreth died, leaving widow Hannah 
and a number of young children, names not given. 
At the time of his death his eldest son Joseph aj)- 
pears to have arrived at the age of manhood, and 
inherited the homestead at Flying Point. But 
afterwards either Joseph or his son Joseph lived on 
what is now the residence of William Woolley, the 
grandfather of Mr. William Woolley, now living. 

About 1650, Thomas Topping gives to his son- 



CHANGES OF RESIDENCES. 159 

in-law, James Herrick, a lot of land on his front, 
about two rods wide, for a house lot. He lived on 
what is now the homestead of Mr. Albert Foster. 
At this time, probably, and certainly in 1681, John 
Jessup lived on what is now the residence of the 
widow of Capt. James Post : for in 1681 John Jes- 
sup sells this homestead to James Henick. North 
of this, where some shops or wood houses of Mr. 
Edwin Post now stand, must have been the site of 
the second church. North of the church was the 
Court House, and in the rear the Jail. Still north 
of these, on the present homestead of Mr. Edwin 
Post, was the residence of Isaac Willman. Next 
to this was the house of Ellis Cook, now Mr. George 
Herrick's. Then next north lived John White very 
early, and north of him, embracing the present 
homestead of Mr. Lewis Hildreth, and Mrs. Phebe, 
widow of Dr. John P. Heirick, was the residence of 
Henry Pierson. 

The house lot of William Russell was sold to 
Obadiah Bale in 1678, bounded N. by home lot of 
John Laughton, E. by the street, S. by the home lot 
of John Jagger, and W. by the highway leading to 
North Sea. Obadiah Sale sells this homestead to 
George Heathcote, and it was afterwards purchased 
of Heathcote by the town for a burying ground and 
is still so used. 

1676. Richard Howell exchanges a lot laid out 
for a home lot of four acres, bounded N. by home 
lot of Joseph Raynor, S. by home lot of Mrs. Ray- 
nor or Jonathan Raynor, (R. Howell bought this of 
John Lum) for six acres of Ben Davis' which he had 



160 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

of Arthur Howell and whicli were next to and south 
of Richard Howell's home lot. 

Arthur Howell and Hannah his wife, sell his 
home lot and house to Ben. Davis, May 2, 1675, 
which lies between Joseph Raynor and Richard 
Howell's, containing six acres. Arthur Howell re- 
moved to Sagabonach. 

We will add some statements communicated to 
the author, concerning the residences during the 
better half of the last century, by Mr, Charles 
Pelletreau, now deceased. 

8outh of Mr. Isaac Foster's house was the resi- 
dence of Obadiah Howell. 

North of Mr. Isaac Foster lived Nathan «! agger. 

South of Mr. Nicholas White lived Hugh Ray- 
uor, and James his son, lived in the present residence 
of Mr. White. 

North of Mr. White lived Benjamin Marshall. 

North of Horsemill lane lived Adonijah Raynor. 

South of the house of Mr. Barney Green lived 
John Howell. Deacoii Thomas Jessup erected and 
occupied this house of Mr. Green. A windmill 
once stood on the South-Avest corner of the lot ctf 
Capt. Charles Howell, which lies south of the home- 
stead of Mr. Albert Foster. Stephen Howell lived 
on the present residence of Mr. Edwin Halsey. 

Jeremiah Jagger lived on the present residence of 
Capt. George White. East of the homestead ol' 
Capt, Barney Green, deceased, lived John Fowler, 
Esq. Caleb Cooper lived on the present residence 
of Mr. Sherder. Charles Cooper lived on the place 
of the late Sylvanus Marshall. Dr. Smith lived on 



RESIDENCES IN 1865. 161 

the place of Mr. William Pelletreau, deceased, 
Joshua Sayre lived north of the present home of 
Mr. Caleb Halsey. Stephen Sayre lived on the 
present homestead of Mi-. Jackson, but afterward 
removed from the town. 

Elias Foster lived on llie present homestead of 
Mr. Peter Fournier. John Foster, one of the con- 
vention to adopt the constitution of the United 
States, lived on the present homestead of Mr. Lewis 
Hildreth. Dea. Samuel Howell lived on the home- 
stead now of Mr. Jeremiah Squires. 

To complete the list of present residences in the 
main street from the fork in the road opposite the 
burying ground, northwards on the trapezoidal tract 
of land which forms the fork, lives on the end front- 
ing the south, the widow of the late Capt. Austin 
Herrick. On the east side north of Mrs. Herrick 
lives Capt. Daniel Jagger and north of him Capt. 
Henry Halsey, and still north of him Miss Sayre. 
On the west side of the same lines Mrs^ Age Hal- 
sey. On the east side of the east branch of the 
main street line, successively advancing northwards, 
the widow of Jonathan Fithian, Esq., (as in the 
plot before given) Charles Bishop, Caleb Halsey, 
Jackson, Peter Fournier, James Bishop, Wil- 
liam Jagger, and Lewis Jagger. On tlie west side 
of the same branch live Mrs. Lewis Sanford, Albert 
Jagger, Albert Reeves and Francis Bishop. On the 
south end of a tract of land between the two 
branches aforesaid, and fronting south live Mr. 
Lewis Bonden, on the west, and Mr. John Burnett 
to the east of him. On the west side of the west 



162 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

branch, north of Capt. William Fowler (as in 
the above plot) lives Mrs. Harriet K, Halsey, 
Mr. E. Wines Payne, and Captain Samuel Mc- 
Corkle. On the east side of the same lines, Mr. 
David Jagger. 



CHAPTER rx. 

INDIANS FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THEM 

PURCHASE OF THEIR LANDS LEASE OF 

SHINNECOCK AND THE HILLS SALE OF 

SHINNECOCK HILLS. 

At the time of the settlement of Southampton, 
five tribes of Indians were living in its vicinity. 
The tract of land originally settled was purchased 
of the Shinnecocks, leaving part of their lands still 
in their possession. The remainder of their terri- 
tory was afterwards purchased, and the western 
boundary of the town then was on the borders of 
. the Poosepatuck, or Poosapatuck and Patchogue 
I tribes, and the northern on the borders of the 
Peaconies. To the east roamed the Montauk, the 
royal tribe of the Island whose chief, Wyandanch, 
a man of noble character, exercised supreme authority 
over the whole thirteen tribes who occupied the Is- 
land. The aggregate proportion of these tribes is 
now unknown, though collateral facts confirmed by 
tradition afford good evidence of its being very great. 
The Montauks are said to have been the most nu- 
merous and powerful. Tradition has it, that in early 
times when drawn out in " Indian file " the Avariiors 
of the Shinnecock tribe extended from Shinnecock 
gate to the town — this being about two miles would 



164 MIfSTOin OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

give tlif m at least 2000 adult men — but 200 seems 
tar more probable. Nowedanah, a brother of Wy- 
andanch, was the chief of the Shinuecocks, as appears 
in the deed of sale of East Hampton. 

There is no reason to suppose the Indians on the 
east end diflered in character from those on the 
main — they were bold, hardy and warlike. Yet 
never once was there any armed collision or serious 
disturbance of the peaceful relations initiated at 
the settlement of the town. There were indeed, at 
times, ominous threats and rumors, but they all 
originated in the machinations of the natives on the 
main, oi-, there is some reason to believe, of the 
Duteli in New York. This fiiendly feeling was 
owing partly to the fact of the fair and equitable 
treatment they universally received from the Eng- 
lish ; and partly from the peculiar circumstances of 
the natives themselves. The Montauks on the east, 
and the Shinuecocks on the west, had been harassed 
by incursions of the Narragansetts of Rhode Island, 
and were glad to enter into a treaty with the Eng- 
lish for mutual protection. It will be seen from the 
Indian deed of 1640, given in the appendix, that 
this stipulation w^as made with the whites as a part 
of the consideration in the sale of the land. This 
understanding between the Indians and the English 
went far to secure peace within their borders. 

The amicable relations between the two races was 
seriously threatened in 1653, when the Narragansetts, 
perhaps allied emissaries of the Dutch, endeavored 
to seduce the Indians on the east end of Long Island 
into a combination with them to exterminate all the 



FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THE INDIANS. 165 

white settlers. In this they were unsuccessful, al- 
though the apprehensions of the English were 
greatly excited, and for some time unusual care was 
taken to guard against a sudden attack. 

Mr. Prime, Hist, of L. I., says: " The conduct of 
the Long Island Indians towards the whites, is 
j without a parallel in the history of this country. It 
was to he expected that individual acts of aggres- 
sion would occur on the part of a barbarous people, 
for real or supposed injuries. But even these were 
rare ; and the Indians always showed themselves 
willing to submit to an impartial investigation, and 
just decision of alleged wrongs." 

From Records of Particular Courts at Hartford, 
Ct , Liber 2, [). 99, as pu])lished in Hist. Magazine, 
by Mr. Charles J . Hoadley, we take the following: 

"A i)erticular Court [at Hartford] May 11th, 
1()57. 

" Vpon examination of Wig- 

M.oisiK.TEs. ^^-I'^nh, hee confessed that hee 

J.10 Webster Esq Gom-uor ^as hyred to buriie Mrs. How- 

.Mr Wells Deputy «?ll's liouse, by two Indians one 

Mr Cullick Awabag, whoe pmised him one 

-Mr Clarke gun I and Agagoneagu who 

Mr Failcoat promised him 7s 6d and hee 

j Mr. Ogdeu *4aid Auwegenum did know hee 

I a**» was to burne the house two dayes 

MrAllin«!fc before it was done — and that 

Wra Wadsworth liimselfe and the three Indians 

were together when he was 

hyred, but Auwegenum did not heere their discourse, 

but Auwabag told Auweganum of it afterward. 

22 

1\ 



166 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

" Vpi)on consideration of the motion made from 
or friends at Southampton for the prsence, counten- 
ance and assistance of 20 men from vs, and con- 
sidering their sad distressed prsent state by reason 
of the insolent and insuffrable outrage of some 
heathen vpon that Ihind and neare tliat plantation 
by fyering seuerall dwelling houses to the vndoing 
of seuerall members of this CoUony. 

" This Court order that there shall be 20 men 
prssed forthuth to goe ouer to their assistance as the 
case may require together nth necessary ])ruision & 
Amunition uch are to bee taken out of the seurall 
Townes in the })portion following : 

Hartford 1 



Windzor- 
Wethersf- 



These men to have 25 lb of 
powder & 50 lb of Bullets." 



Farmington — 

Midltown 

Sea Brooke — 

Pequett 

The only other occurrence of this kind whicli 
happened in Southampton was the murder of Mrs. 
Thomas Halsey, in 1649, which caused some aj)pre- 
hension of a general insurrection against the Eng- 
lish. A messenger was immediately sent to the 
magistrates to summon Wyandanch to appear be- 
fore them. " His counselors fearing that he would 
be summarily condemned to death by way of re- 
taliation, advised him not to obey the summons. 
Before he expressed his own opinion, he submitted 
the case to Mr. Grardiner, who happened to be lodg- 
ing in his wigwam that same night. By his advice 



A 



FRIENDLV RELATIONS WITH THE INDIANS. 167 

he set out immediately for Southampton, Mr. G. 
agreeing- to remain as a hostage to the tribe, for the 
safety of their beloved chief. W ith amazing celerity, 
he not only accomplished the journey of twenty-five 
miles, but actually apprehended on his way, and de- 
livered to the magistrates, the murderers of the 
woman ; who, instead of being his own subjects, 
proved to be Pequot Indians from the main ; some 
of whom were generally lurking on the Island for 
the purpose of i)romoting disturbances between the 
natives and the new settlers. These men being sent 
to Hartford, were there tried, convicted, and ex- 
ecuted." 

The only allusion to this murder found in the 
records is as follows : 

"■ I the subscriber, namely, Thomas Halsey do 
witness that at the time of the trouble in this town 
of Southampton by reason of murther committed 
by the Indians ; at a great assembly of the Indians 
for the settling of matters in fine, I saw Mandush 
(who was a man reputed and acknowledged generally 
by all Indians for those parts to be the great Sa- 
chem's son of Shinnecock) cut up a turf of ground 
in Southampton and delivering it to Wyandanch, 
gave up all his right and interest unto him. And 
he the said Mandush uith many other of the chief 
of Shinnecock Indians, as ancient men did manifest 
their consent and that they were contented by their 
ordinary sign of stroking Wyandanch on the back 
and since that time the said Wyandanch hath acted 
upon the aforesaid interest given to him as by letting 
and disposing of lands at Quaquanantuck and 



168 HISTORY or SOUTHAMl'TON. 

elsewhere. And I never heard any deny Wyandancli 
his right and propriety in the premises until of 
late. And this I am ready to depose when there- 
unto called. Witness my hand the 19 day of Se])- 
temher 1666." 

"THOMAS HALSEY.' 

" I the subscriber namely Thomas Say re do also 
witness all that his above testified by Thos Halsey 
except only the delivery of the tuif and further that 
when Mandush gave up his right to Wyandanch. 
and stroked him on the back, Mandush also told 
Wyandanch that nou he uould be all one dog. 
And this 1 am ready to dei)UHe when I am there- 
unto called. Witness my hand this 19 day of Se])- 
tember 1666." 

•^THOMAS SAYKE." 

Confirmation of this relinquishment of the fee of 
fhe land, similar perhaps to that under William the 
Norman, in England, that, according to the feudal 
system, the barons should hold their tenures of the 
King, is found in some documents which Weany, 
Sunk Squa (or the royal Squaw, or Squaw Regenl. 
in court parlance) tlie widow of Wyandanch unites 
in signing with the Shinnecocks. 

As to their religious belief, it has been tVumd 
impossible to ascertain any information frOm 
the living representatives of the Shinnecock tribe. 
But Lyon Gardiner, the chronicle of East Hamp- 
ton, has left on record a statement in reference 
to the Montauks, who, doubtless, differed in nothing 
in this respect from other Long Island tribes. As 



RELIGIOUS BELIEF. 



169 



no man was better qualified thau he, the worthy 
friend of the noble Wyandanch, we give his notes 

entire. 

" They were, as I have before remarked, Polythe- 
.ists. They had gods in great numbers ; many of 
lesser influence, having particular charges, and twi. 
of exalted degree, the good and evil Deity, having 
a general superintendence and control, as well over 
all other gods as over men. There was a god of the 
four corners of the earth, and the four seasons of the 
year ; another of the productions of the earth ; 
another of the elements ; one of the day and night ; 
and a god of the hearth, the family and domestic 
relations. The great, good, and supreme Deity they 
called Caulkluntoowut, which signifies one pos- 
sessed of supreme power. The great evil spirit was 
named Mutchesumetook which signifies evil power. 
They worshipped and offered sacrifices to these gods 
at all times. They had small idols or images which 
they believed knew the will of the gods and a regu- 
lar Priesthood by whom these idols were consulted. 
The priests were called Powawows, or Powwas, and 
declared to the people what the gods required of 
them. When dances and feasts should be made ; 
when presents should be given to the old people ; 
when sacrifices should be offered to the gods, and of 
what kind. These Powwas pretended to hold inter- 
course uith the gods in dreams, and with the evil 
spirits in particular, who appeared to them under 
different forms, and by voices in the air. These 
were the Medicine-men. They administered to the 
sick ; relieved those afflicted uith evil spirits and 



170 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

jioison, and by incantations and chaiins, protected 
the people from all harm. Subject to the Powwas' ' 
influence, neither tire could burn them nor water 
drown them ; nor could they receive any injury what- 
ever. The most savory sacrifice made to the great 
Deity was the tail or fin of the whale, which they 
roasted. The leviathan, from which it was taken, 
was at times found east upon the sea-shore, and then 
a great and prolonged Powow or Religious Festival 
was held. At these festivals great efforts were sup- 
posed to be necessary to keep the Evil One uthout 
the circle of their incantations. His presence, it 
Avas believed, would defeat the object of the Powwas 
in the procurement of the favor and particular re- 
gard of the good deity. Violent gesticulations, loud 
yells, and laborious movements of the limbs and 
body, with distortion of the features, were continued 
until the excitement produced approached to mad- 
ness. When the Evil Spirit was supposed to be 
subjugated, the dance and the feast commenced. It 
is among the Indian traditions, that the existence of 
the Evil Spirit was evidenced by his having, when 
driven from the feast, left the imprint of his foot 
upon a granite rock on Montauk, and made three 
holes in the ground, at regular distances, where he 
alighted, in three several leaps from the stone on 
which he had stood, and then disappeared. 

"They believed in a future state of existence, 
that their souls would go westward a great distance, 
and many moons journey, to a place where the spirits 
of all would reside, and where, in the presence of 
their great Sawwonnuntow, beyond the setting sun, 



RELIGIOUS BELIEF. 171 

the brave and the good would exercise themselves 
in pleasurable singing, in feasting, hunting, and 
dancing forever. The coward, the traitor, the liar 
and the thief, were also there, but the enjoyments 
of the favored Sawwonnuntow only added to the 
pain of the punishments visited upon the misdeeds 
of the wicked. Servile labor, so painful to an4 so 
much despised by the Indian, was the allotment of 
the sinful. The making a canoe with a round 
stone, and the carrying water in a wicker basket 
were among the perplexing exercises of those who 
had sacrificed the happiness of their future exist- 
ence to the will of Mutchesumetooh or the Evil 
power." 

No more hopeless fate than this, the classical 
student will observe, was awarded by the grim Rhad- 
amanthus to Sisyphus Tau talus, or the daughters of 
Danaus. 

In 1641 the Greneral Court passed a law making 
it penal to sell any instrument of war, namely, 
guns, powder, bullets, lead, swords or matches to 
the Indians, and also against .selling any liquor to 
the same. A second law was afterwards passed, 
allowing certain specified parties to trade with them 
discreetly in these things. 

For many years after the settlement the Indians 
derived their subsistence, like their brethren in other 
parts of the country, chiefiy from hunting and fish- 
ing. But gradually adopting the civilized life, for 
generations past, they have cultivated sufficient land 
to supply their wants, together with the wealth they 
liave drawn from the adjacent waters. They are 



17:2 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

now generally provided with comfortable homes, and 
niaiutain a school in their midst, and two small 
chnrciies. 

As before stated, the tirst purchase from the In- 
dians Avas made on Dec. 13th, 1640. Then the 
(^uaquanantiick or Quogue purchase of which no 
record appears in the town records. Thirdly, Top- 
ping's purchase of land west of Quogue, effected 
April 10, 1662, and finally a re-purchase of the 
whole town, Aug. 16, 1703, the deeds of all which 
will be found in the appendix. 

LEASE OF SHINNECOCK TO THE INDIANS. 

In order to settle all disputes which had arisen 
concerning the title to the land of the town, and 
(juiet the Indians in their apprehensions at the dis- 
a})pearance of their hunting grounds, as before 
stated, a convention of the whites and Indians was 
held at Southampton, Aug. 16, 1703. In addition 
to the re-purchase of the town, the whites gave to 
the Indians the following lease of Bhinnecock and 
the hills : 

" This indenture made between the Trustees of the 
commonalty of the Town of Southampton in the 
County of Suffolk and province of New York on 
Island of Nassau on the one part, and Pomquama, 
Ohice, and Manaman and their people belonging to 
Shinnecock of the other part, witnesseth : That the 
said Trustees of the Town aforesaid, by and with 
one full consent and agreement for divers good, 
causes them thereunto moving, and one ear of In- 
dian corn annually to be paid to the Trustees of said 



LEASE OF SHINNKOOCK TO THE INDIANS. 173 

Town for tlie time being, yearly, and every year, 
upon the first day of November, and foi- and upon 
the condition and proviso hereafter expressed, have 
demised, granted, and to farm letten, and by these 
presents do demise, grant, let, and let to farm unto 
the said Pomquama, Chice, Manaman, and their 
people abovesaid, all that tlieir certain tract of land 
lying within the bounds of Southampton aforesaid, 
called by the name of Shinnecock and Sebonac, 
bounded west by Canoe place, alias Niamug. and 
bounded southward by Shinnecock Bay, and east- 
ward by a line running from the head of Shinnecock 
Creek to the north-west corner of James Cooper's 
Close, and from thence northwardly to the westward 
part of Jonathan Raynor's land, at Sebonac old 
ground, and from thence on a direct line to a place 
called the warehouse by the North Bay, and on the 
north by the said Bay ; meadows, marshes, grass, 
herbage, feeding and pasturage, timber, stone, and 
convenient highways only excepted, with all and 
singular the privileges and advantages of plowing 
and planting, and timber for firing and fencing, and 
all other conveniences and benefits whatsoever, ex- 
cepting what before is excepted to the only use and 
behoof of the said Indians, their heirs and succes- 
sors, for one thousand years thence next ensuing 
the date hereof : Provided always the said Indians 
do not keep nor cause to be kept, any part or parcel 
of the said land within fence or enclosed from the 
last of October to the first of April, from year to 
year, during the whole term aforesaid ; and for the 
full confirmation hereof, the parties have inter- 
23 



174 inSTOUY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

cliangeably set their hands and seals in Southampton 
aforesaid, this sixteenth of August, Anno Dom. 1703. 

Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of ' 
Stephen Bouer, Arthur Davis, Benjamin Marshall, 
Thomas Stephens, Gersham Culver, John Maltby, 
Daniel Halsey, Hezekiah Howell, Abraham Howell, 
Jekemiah Scott, Joseph Fordham, Josiah Howell, 
Joseph Howell, Trustees." 

Immediately after the above lease is recorded in, 
the town records the following : 

" We, the trustees within named, according to the 
town's former agreement with the said Indians of < 
Shinnecock, do hereby grant liberty to them and 
theirs, to cut flags, bulrushes, and such grass as 
they usually make their mats and houses of, and to 
dig ground nuts, mowing lands excepted, anywhere 
in the bounds of the township of Southampton 
aforesaid, as Avitnesseth our hands and seals this 
16th day of August, 1703. 

Witness : 

Josiah Howell, Abraham Howell, Stephen Bouyer, 
Arthur Davis, Benjamin Marshall, Joseph Howell, 
Daniel Halsey, Hezekiah Howell, John Maltby, 
Jekemiah Scott, Joseph Fordham, Thomas Stephens, 
Oersham Calver, Trustees." 

Acknowledged same day before John Wheeler, 
Justice. 

SALE OF SHINNECOCK HILLS IN 1861. 

By a special act of legislature, the Indians, in 
1859, were empowered to sell and did sell to the pro- 
prietors, all their rights to the Shinnecock hills 
which they possessed (or their children were to pos- 



SALK OF SHINNECOCK HILLS IN 18()1. 175 

' sess) by the above lease of 1703, in consideration of 
having in themselves the fee of Shinnecock neck. 
On Feb. 19, 1861, the hills were sold by the pro- 
prietors at public auction, for $6,250, and pur- 
chased by a company of Southampton people, 
chiefly for purposes of pasturage. In the adver- 
tisement for the sale occurs the following : *' Sit- 
uated in the central part of said Town, and extend- 
ing from Pec<^>nic Bay on the north, to Shinnecock 
Bay on the south, and containing about 320C) acres. 
The Indian claim and interest in these lands have 
been recently extinguished by agreement with the 
Indians, and by the consent and ratification of the 
Legislature of the State of New York, so that the 
title to the property is now undisputed and indis- 
putable. A considerable portion of the land is of 
good quality, ready for the plough, and susceptible 
of being converted into fine farms. The remainder 
is well adapted to sheep and cattle grazing, to which 
the whole tract has been exclusively devoted for 
many years." 



CHAPTER X. 

EARLY CUSTOMS WHALING BURYING 

GROUNDS MISCELLANEOUS. 

Many of the customs and peculiarities of our 
i'orefathers have already been noticed in various 
portions of this work, so that but little remains to 
say on this point. Like their friends in New Eng- 
land, it appears from the records, that they for a 
time abandoned the use of the names of months and 
days as given in the calendar ; dating an event, e.g. 
on the 7th day of the week of the 4th month, in- 
stead of Saturday, June 4th. This custom origi- 
nated from conscientious scruples against the use of 
names of heathen origin. 

In an old collection of almanacs published in 
Cambridge, Mass., from 1671 to 1686, inclusive, the 
year commenced with March 1st, and ended Feb. 
28th. With 1687, and since that time, the year 
was reckoned to begin with Jan. 1st. There is 
strong evidence that the people of Southampton in 
1644, and generally, reckoned the commencement 
of the year with March 1st. See the two orders in 
Chapter IV. in reference to the combination with 
Connecticut. This is confirmed by two orders re- 
corded in Chapter II., in reference to the laying out 



EARLY CUSTOMS. 177 

of tlie present site of the village into liouse lots. 
The first, dated 23rd of the 1st, (which was March) 
1648, appointed a meeting of the town, etc., the 
second order dated March 27, 1648, declares the re- 
sult of the deliberation. The dates of these two 
orders, since we must reasonably hold they were 
both in the same year, prove the year, according to 
their reckoning, to have commenced on the first of 
March. 

On the other hand the date of the instrument of 
the " Disposall of the Vessel! " March 10, 1639 ; 
their attempt at a settlement westward at Cow 
Bay, although there is a discrepancy of a year in 
the Dutch and London records, is fixed at May, 
1640, by irrrefragible evidence, and it would seem 
that at least this document is dated according to the 
custom which is said to have prevailed in England 
until 1752, of reckoning the year to begin with 
March 25. We cannot account otherwise for a year 
that would be lost by the settlers, whereas every- 
thing goes to show that on leaving the western part 
of the Island, they came almost immediately to this 
place. 

The sabbath was reckoned to begin at sunset of 
Saturday, and ended with sunseting of Sunday. 

Whether the autumnal thanksgiving now custom- 
ary through the country, was kept in early times 
here, as it was in New England, is not known. But 
that occasional fast days were observed, we may 
refer from an anecdote of some old worthy long de- 
parted, who wished a certain fast on account of a 
long drought, might be deferred one day until he 



178 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

had gathered in some hay that was ready for the 
ham ! There was some faith at least in the efficacy 
of prayer. 

The old English custom of having the Yale or 
Christmas log, was retained in some families, at 
least, until the old fashioned wide fire-places went 
out of vogue. This was an unusually large hickory 
hack log which was cut and selected for this purpose 
in the woods, and took its ])lace on Christmas 
morning, though it was not customary, as in Eng- 
land, to pieserve the charred ren)ain.s for lighting 
the next year's christmas fire. 

Another singular custom prevailed which arose in 
England from the fact that the bakers there, when 
they came to supply their customers on Christmas 
morning, presented to the children little dough-boys 
fried as " dough-nuts." These dough children were 
to commemmorate the anniversary of our Savior's 
birth. In course of time the customers took the 
liint and prepared these delicate sweets for their 
children themselves, and deposited them in the little 
stockings suspended in the chimney corner for the 
friendly visits of St. Nicholas. 

WHALING SQUADRON. 

From various scattered records, it appears that 
the number of whales that in a year drifted on the 
coast, have been considerable. How soon the set- 
tlers procured boats and tackle for capturing them 
on the ocean, is not known. 

The following lists are given, copied from the 
town records : 



WHALING SQUADRON. 179 

'* March 7, 1644. Yt is ordered by tliis present 
Court that yft" by the providence of God there shall 
bee hencefoorth within the bounds of this plantacon 
any whale or whales Cast vp for the prevention of 
Disorder yt is C(Hisented vnto that then; shall be 
foure Wards in this Towne eleaven piirsons in each 
ward. And by lott two of each ward (when any 
such whale shall be cast vp] shall be employd for 
the Cutting out of the sayd whale who for their 
paynes shall haue a Double share, And every Inhab- 
itant with his child or servant that is above sixteen 
years of age shall haue in the Division of the other 
part an equall proportion provided that such person 
when yt falls into his ward a sufficient man to be 
imployed aboute yt. 

" And yt is further agreed upon that there shall be 
in each ward eleven persons." 

'• FFOR YE FIRST WARD." 
William Barnes, Geo. Wood, Thomas Cooper, 
Richard Stratton, Job Sayre, Thomas Burrnett, 
John White, William Mulford, Thomas Halsey, 
Junr., Thomas Talmage, Senr. &; Mr. Johnes. 

*• FFOR YE SECOND WARD.'- 

Richard Jacques, Thomas Talmage, Junr., Mr. 
Peirson, Robert Rose, Mr. Gosmer, Thomas Halsye- 
deur, Mr. Stanborough, Richard Barrett, Richard 
Post, Thomas Tomson & Robart Talmage. 

« FFOR YE THIRD WARD." 

Richard Gosmer, Arthur Bostock, Henry Peirson, 
John Hande, Thomas Hildreth, John Mulford, John 



180 



HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON', 



Moore, Ellis Cooke, Robert Boncle, ffulk Davis & 
Mr. Howe, 

• FFOR YE FOURTH WARD." 

John Cooper, Senr., Wm. Hedges, John Cooper, 
Junr., John Cory, Mr. Howell, Mr. Oclell, John 
Howell, Richard Smith, & Thomas Sayre. 

SQUADRONS FOR CUTTING UP WHALES THAT MIGHT 
DRIFT UP UPON THE SHORES. lt)53. 



uriKS. FIRST SQUADRON. 


FitTlE. 


^ SECOND SQUADRON. 


3 


Mr. Richard Smith 


4 


Mr. Howell [Ed- 


4 


Mr. Rainor 




ward, Sen] j 


3 


Mr. Odell 


2 


Mr. Gosmer [John] • 


2 


John Lum 


2 


Richard Post 


1 


John J agger 


2 


Thomas Vale (?) 


1 


Jonas Bowre 


1 


Thomas Wood 


2 


Joseph Rainer 


2 


Samuel Dayton 


3 


Thomas Halsey 


2 


Robert Merbin 


4 


John Howell 


3 


Mr. Johnes 


3 


Jonas Wood 


3 


Thomas Cooper 


1 


Barth'l'mew Smith 


3 


Mr, Stansborough 


3 


Christopher Foster 


2 


Joshua Barnes 


1 


The Miller [Wm 


1 


John Bishop 




Liidlam] 


2 


Thomas Hildreth 






1 


John OldfieldH 






1 


Mr, Hampton 

[James] 




THIRD SQUADRON. 




FOURTH SQUADRON. 


3 


Capt. Topping 


2 


Thomas Goldsmith 




[Thos.] 


3 


Thomas Halsey 


3 


Mr. Fordham 


2 


Edward Howell Jr. 


2 


Ellis Cook 


2 


John Jessup 



WHALING SQUADRONS. 



181 



FiiTiKS. THIRD SQUADRON. 

Conlinued. 


FiFTlHS. 


FOURTH SQUADRON 

Continued. 


3 


John White 


3 


Richard Banett 


3 

1 
3 


Henry Pierson 
John Cooper Jr. 
Mr. Howell [YA- 
ward Sen.] 


3 
3 
4 
2 


Mr. Topping 
Mr. Fordham 
Mr. Field 
Isaak Willman 


4 
3 
3 


Thomas Say re 
Mr. Gosmer [John] 
William Rogers 


3 
1 


John Cooper Sen. 
Widdow Briggs. 


3 
1 


Thomas Burnett 
Thomas Post. 







"A LIST OF YE INHABITANTS YT ARE TO CUTT WBALES." 

(This list shows the residences very clearly. It 
occurs immediately after an entry dated 1657, but 
the list is not dated.) 

Mr. Rainer ; Tho. Halsey, Jun'r ; Tho. X Sen'r ; 
Mr. Ifordham ; Joseph ffordham ; John Coop [er] : 
Edw. Howell ; Tho. Sayre ; Isack Halsey — 10. 

Tho. Coop [er] ; Ben. Davis ; Sam. Johnes ; Jon ; 
Jagger ; Wm. Russell ; ffran. Sayre ; Jon. Laugh- 
ton ; Dan. Sayre ; John Bpp (Bishop) Josh. Barnes 
—10. 

Mr. Hampton ; RoL. Woolley, Jonas Bowi-e, Jon. 
ffoster ; Jon. Woodruff ; Tho. Burnett ; Left. Post ; 
Ob. Rogers, Hen. Pierson, En. Phillips — 10. 

John White ; Ellis Cook ; Jack Willman ; Ja. 
Herick ; Tho. Toping ; Capt. Toping ; Jon. Toping ; 
Per. Stanboro, Tho. Goldsmith ; Jon. Jessup — 10. 

Edw. How^ell, Xto. Foster ; Ri. Howell ; Joseph 
ffoster ; Ben. ffoster ; Jos. Rainer ; Hen. Ludlam ; 
Joseph Ludlam ; An. Ludlam, Ar. Howell — 10. 
24 



182 msToKY OF SOUTHAMPTON. ' 

8a.m. Clark : Xto Lnpton ; Mr. iSoott ; Jon. 
Rose ; R. 8niith ; Ben. Haines ; Tho. Shaw ; G. 
Harris ; Jolin Davis ; Mr. Jennings — 10. 

March 23d, 1667, the town was divided into six 
sqnrdrons to cut up dead whiles, as follows : 

FIRST SQUADRON. 

Mr. Rainer, Thomas Halsey, Jr., Thomas Halsey, 
Hen., Joseph Rainer, Richard Howell, Capt. How- 
ell, [John] Christopher Foster, Joseph Foster, Ben- 
jamin Foster, Edward Howell. 

SECOND SQUADRON. 

Mr. Fordham, Jos^eph Fordham, John Jessup, 
Thomas Goldsmith, John Cooper, Thomas Top- 
ping, Capt. Topping, John Topping, Peregrine 
Stanbrough, James Herrick. 

THIRD SQUADRON. 

Isaac Willman, Edmund Howell, Ellis Cook, En- 
sign Phillips, John White, Henry Peirson, Obadiah 
Rogers, Lieut. Post, Thomas Coo})er, Thomas Sayre. 

FOURTH SQUADRON. 

Isaac Halsey, Thomas Burnett, John Woodruff, 
John Foster, Jonas Bowre, Samuel Johnes, Ben. 
Davis, Henry Ludlam, Anthony Ludlam, Joseph 
Ludlam. 

FIFTH SQUADRON. 
John Jagger, Mr. Laughton, William Russell, 
Robert WooUey, Mr. Hampton, Joshua Barnes, 
John Bishop, Daniel Sayre, Francis Sayre, Arthur 
Howell. 



WHALING SQUADRONS. 183 

SIXTH SQUADRON. 

John Rose, Christopher Lupton, Richard Smith, 
George Harris, Mr. Scott, Samuel Chxrke, Thomas 
Shaw, Ben. Haines, Mr. Jennings, John Davis. 

It will be noticed that these squadrons of 1667, 
are formed of men in order of their residences. Be- 
ginning at the south-end of the town, the first squad- 
ron embraces all the men as far as the old house lot 
next south of the residence of Barney Green. The 
second squadron includes the men who lived thence 
northward to the present residence of Mrs. Hannah 
Post. The third includes the men who lived north- 
ward to Job's lane. The fourth thence northward 
to Huntting's lane. The fifth embraced all who 
dwelt north of this lane. The sixth embraced all 
the North Sea men. 

It was customary, later, to fit out expeditions of 
several whale boats, and cruise along the coast in 
the whaling season, and camj) out during the night. 
These expeditions did not usually consume more 
than a week or two on any one voyage. Indians 
were often employed by the whites on these expe- 
ditions, the latter furnishing boats and whaling 
gear, and tlie lomier receiving a certain proportion 
of the oil for their services. 

The following order is suggestive of the bountiful 
provisions of nature, ere man had thinned her ex- 
uberant resources : 

" Feb. 9th, 1645. Yt is ordered by the General 
Court that yf by the providence of God, there shall 
bee henceforth cast up within the limits of this 
towne of Southampton any whale or whales, or any 



m 

184 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

part or piece of a whale, that noe man shall pre- 
sume to take or carry any part thereof, upon the 
forfeiture of twentie shillings and to stand to the 
further censure of the Cort, without order from the 
Magistrate or Magistrates, And whosoever shall 
finde or espie eyther whale or whales or any part or 
peece of a whale, cast up, upon notice given unto 
the Magistrate or Magistrates, shall have for his 
paynes allowed unto him five shillings, but yf yt 
shall be by the Magistrate or whom he shall a})point, 
adjudged not to be worth five shillings, then the 
sayd parties which shall give information, shall 
have yt for his paynes. And that from yeare to 
yeare the Marshall give notice after any form or ac- 
cording to his discretion, unto two persons in whose 
ward by turne yt shall belong or appertaine. And 
yt is further ordered that yf any shall finde a whale 
or any peece thereof upon the Lord's day then 
the aforesaid shillings shall not be due or pay- 
able." 

(This last clause appears to be a very shrewd thrust at " moon- 
ing " on the beach on Sundays.) 

BURYING GROUNDS. 

These are numerous, and indicate a rapid colo- 
nizing of the inhabitants over the territory embraced 
in the town. There are two in the village, one at 
North Sea, one at Wickapogue, one at Watermill, 
two at Mecox, two in Sagg, two in Bridge Hampton, 
one at Scuttle Hole, and others west of the village 
of Southampton. Of these the oldest is that known 
as the South end burying ground, in the village of 



BURYING GROUNDS. 185 

Southampton, the earliest record concerning which 
is as follows : 

" January 5th, 1665. The overseers have agreed 
with James Herrick that hee shall have one acre of 
land at the reare of his home lott in consideration 
of a foot uay for people upon his lott to the burying 
place where the towne have one acre for that use, & 
James Herrick is to have the herhidge of it." 

The earliest graves here have no stones to mark 
them, unless they have fallen and been covered by 
the soil and overgrowing vegetation, — there is not a 
monument, indeed, to mark the spot where a single 
one of the first settlers was buried. The graves of 
their children, the men of the second generation, 
however, are marked with tombstones still standing. 

Three different varieties of stone were used — the 
blue slate, so common in the old cemeteries of New 
England, a red sandstone that quite well withstands 
the ravages of time, and a grey sandstone, which, 
on the contrary, very poorly preserves its original 
inscriptions. Most of the graves have now become 
level with the ground, and many of the monuments 
covered with mosses. The inscriptions even of some 
are fast becoming illegible, so that it seems a work 
of charity to preserve here the remembrance of our 
ancestors for future generations. The following are 
copies of the inscriptions of all the stones that are 
visible in the older portion of the yard. Those 
marked with a * have, in addition to the epi- 
taph, the family arms engraved upon them. Some 
are surmounted with the conventional cherub of the 
old graveyards, and others by skull and cross-bones. 



186 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

" Hero lyt'8 ye reverent Joseph Whiting who died 
April 7 1723 in ye 82nd year of his age. 

" Here lyes the body of Mrs Kebecca Whiting, 
^vife to Mr Jose})h AVhiting aged 63 years 2 monthn 
deceased April 21st, 1726. 

" * Here Lyeth the body of Coll Matthew Howell 
and one of the House of Eepiesentatives for their 
Majesties province of New York. Deceased May 
the 4th Anno 1706 ^]tas-siia-55. 

" Here lies the body of Mr Sanniel Whiting who 
died July ye 12th 1729 in ye 40th year of his 
age. 

"Here lies the body of Abigail Halsey aged 26 
years who died the 10th of October 1606. 

" Here lyes Buried ye body of Mrs Hannah Halsey. 
wife to Capt Isaac Halsey who died Angst 29tlj 
Anno Domini 1723 aged 62 years. 

"" In memory of Capt Isaac Halsey who died May 
ye 18th A. D 1757 in ye 97th year of his age. 

" Here lyeth the body of Timothy Halsey who dyed 
July the 12th 1723 about 20 year of his age. 

" Here lyeth the body of Robert Patton which de- 
ceased on the 12th day of May 1700. ••'• '•' * 

" Here lyeth buried the body of Caj)t Thomas 
Stephens aged about 51 years. Departed this life 
November ye 26th 1701. 

" Here lyes ye body of Sarali Malbey daughter of 
Mr John and Mrs Susanna Malby who deed Sej)- 
tember ye 8th 1723 in ye 19th year of her age. 

"Here lies Interred the body of Mr John Malby 
who died June 27th 1706 aged 33 years. 

"Here lyeth the body of Betliia Coper wife of Mr 



BURYING OHOUNDS. 187 

* •'•' * Coper wlio (.lied JamiJiry the 14th Anno 
1706-17 .Etas-siia-27. 

'' Here lies buried the body of Mrs Mehetable Hcr- 
rick who deed July 17th 1734 aged 60 years. 

" * Here lies ye body of Mr William Herrick 
Esqr who departed this life August the 19th Anno 
1708 ^i:tas-sua-54. 

" Here lyes ye body of Susannah Howell aged 83 
years. Died March ye 24th 1711. 

" ■-' 1696 here lies the body of Major John Howell 
deceased November aged 71. 

"■ Here lies interred ye body of ye reverend Mr 
John Tailor who died August ye 10 1701 aged 23 
years. 

" '^ 1692 Mr John Howell aged 44 years and dyed 
in March the 8th. 

" In memory of Lieut, Hezekiah Howell died Dec. 
ye 4th 1744 in the 68th year of his age. 

" Daniel Foster deed Nov ye 5th 1744 aged 68 
years. Phil. 1st : 2l8t. 

" Interred here lyes the blessed Remains 
Of one who did with Freedom die, 
To be relieved from all his pains, 
And dwell with God Eternally. 

" Here Lyes buried ye body of Mrs Phebe Howell 
wife of Lieut. Hezekiah Howell who died July 16th 
Anno Domini 1732 aged 62 yiears. 

" Here was layed the body of Mr Thomas Sayre 
who dyed December the 10th Anno 1715, in the 
49 th year of his age. 

" Here lyes ye body of Reverend Joseph Taylor 
aged 31 who deceased April 4th 1682. 



188 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

"Here lyeth buried ye body of Abigill flowell yo 
wife of Abraham Howell aged 27 years, deceased ye 
19th of June 1688. 

" Here lyeth ye body of William Ludlam son of 
Anthony Ludlam who died Aprill 27 1716 in ye 
13th year of his age. 

"Here lies buried the body of Mr Obadiah Kogers 
who deed May ye 8th 1729 aged 74 years. 

" In memory of Capt Obadiah Rogers M'ho died 
Oct 31st 1783 in the 84th year of his age. 

"In memory of Mrs Abigail wife of Capt Obadiah 
Rogers who died May 6th 1782 in the 80th year of 
hei" age, 

" Beueath this stone Death's prisoner lies, 
The stone shall move, the prisoner rise 
When Jesus with Alinghty word 
Calls his dead saint to meet * his Lord. 

" Here lyeth the body of Capt John Cooper who 
dyed December the 14th Anno 1715 in the 30th 
year of his age. 

"In memory of John Howell Esq died December 
23 1747 in ye 73rd year of his age. 

" Here * '•'■ * of Ann Howell wife to * '•' '■' 
Howell * * ''■ 44 year of her age. deceased 
May ye 17 1714." 

To these we may add the inscriptions on a few 
stones found in the lot of Mr. Hedges Sandford, of 
Watermill. 

" Here lyes buried the Body of Mr David^Halsey. 
Died tfeb. ye 18 1731 in ye 69th yeare of his age. 

" Here lyes the Body of Mrs Temperrence Cook 
wife to Mr. Ellis Cook who deced Dec. 9 1723 in ye 
19th year of her age. 

• Sic. 



lU'RYING GROUNDS. 189 

"Here lyes ye Body of Mrs Tein iterance Liullaiu 
wife to Mr Jereiuiali Ludlan who deced A})ril ye 2l8t 
1726* in ye 29tli year of her age." 

The two following are given with no other apology 
than their beauty — the one expressing a noble tri- 
bute to the virtues of a wife and mother, the otlu r 
a pious wish whieh has come down to us from a still 
greater antiquity. The first is taken from the North- 
end burying ground of Southampton, the second 
was found in the catacombs of Rome. 

" In memory of Amy wife of Zebulun Howell Esq 
who died Dec 15 1752 in the 59th year of her age. 

" She was a faithful wife and good mother." 

The pious wish engraved on the Roman Christians 
monument is, " Qui legerit, vivat in Christo." 

THE COBB OR WICKAPOGUE BURYING GROUND. 

The only record of this is as follows : 
" 1686 April 1st At a town meeting, it was granted 
to the inhabitants of Cobb to have 6 poles square 
of land for a burying ground." 

This cemetery lies about equally distant from 
Cobb and Wickapogue. It is, like all the others in 
the village, enclosed, and contains some old monu- 
ments. 

MECOX BURYING GROUND. 

This contains a few stones of the men of the 
second generation and in antiquity ranks next to tin; 
old one in Southampton village. Many of the stones 
are doubtless overthrown and covered with soil and 
vegetation. Among the oldest monuments yet 
standing, are the following : 
25 



190 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

" Here Lyeth the Body of Anthony LiuUam who 
dyed March the 17th Anno 1681 in the 31st year of 
his age, 

" tlere lies the body of Samuel flowell who died 
September the 22 (?) 1712 aged 35 years. 

" Here Lyeth the Body of Ellis Cook who departed 
this life November the lOfch Anno 1706 aetatis 44." 

SAGG BURYING GROUND. 

The cemetery in Sagg Street, south, is quite an- 
cient, and is kej)t with commendable care. Among 
the oldest stones are the following : 

" Here lyes buried the body of Theophilus Hoav- 
ell Esq aged 77 years. Heced March ye 12th 1732. 

" In memory of Mrs Martha the wife of Mr. Lem- 
uel Peirson who died Augst the 26th 1753 in the 
72th year of her age. 

" My sun is set, 
My Glass is run, 
My Candle's out, 
My work is done." 

NORTH END BURYING GROUND. 

This lot now used for a cemetery was originally 
laid out as a homestead. Its first owner was Wil- 
liam Russell who sold the same to Obadiah Sale, 
and he moving to Boston, sold it to Caleb Heath- 
cote. Dec. 13, 1712, Caleb Heathcote sells his 
home lot and house, (4 acres,) between Jeremiah Jag- 
ger on the south, and John Laughton on the North, 
for £20 to the trustees of the town. The deed 
of sale states that part of this land Northward and 
Eastward, shall be common to the town for a high- 



MISCELLAKEOUS. 191 

way to North Sea. This iis where the road now 
runs. 

The first interment in this i;ronnJ, however, was 
not till 1721, as appears from an old stone on the 
south side Avith the following inscription : 

'^HEARE LYES I ye 15oDY OF loSEPH | 
PoST DESEASED | 10 NoVEMBER | AGED 
ABoVT I 72 1721." 

Upon the foot stone of this grave is the follow- 
ing : 

"PoST loSEPH I THE FlPvST \ ENTARED 
IN THIS I PLAS." 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Wolves. — 1651. It appears from various records, 
that wolves must have been sufficiently numerous in 
the early times to cause considerable annoyance. 

The following records show what means were em- 
ployed to abate the nuisance : 

" March 3rd, 1651. It is ordered by the Generall 
Court that in consideration of Robert Merwin his 
care and paynes about killing of Wolves by setting 
of guns and watching or otherwise hee shall have 30 
shilling per Wolfe for every one it appeares hee 
killeth, provided that if any beast be killed in pro- 
bability by the Wolves and hee the said Robert have 
notice thereof, that he repaire unto the place where 
the beast is slaine whether at Mecoxe Sagabonach 
or elsewhere within such a compass, and use his 
best endeavors to kill the said destroyer, also if it 
happens at any time he the said Robert bee warned 
to any court or meeting during the time hee is u})on 



1!)2 HISTORY or SOUTHAMPTON. 

the foresaid design tliat liee shall be discharged and 
acquitted from such said meeting, hee is not to sett 
his gun within half a mile of the towne, and if his 
gun kill any beast he shall do his best to find it, 
and the whole towne to bear the loss, 

'' 1652. Oct. 6th, 1652. It is ordered that who- 
soever makt^s it appeare hee killeth a wolfe within 
the bounds of this towne shall have paid unto him 
])y the towne the some of twenty shillings, and hee 
that likewise shall kill a wolfe at Quaquanantuck 
shall have 10 shillings in like manner." 

These extracts, and others as below, however lu- 
dicrous they may appear in subject-matter or minute 
detail, show at least, an admirable equipoise of jus- 
tice. See this : 

" May 5th, 1650. Att the same towne meeting 
there was a stray hogg supposed to be Mr. Smith's 
and by the towne was sould at an outcry for 17s 7d 
and this to goe as farr as it will go, for the payment 
of the damage done by that hogg to the Indians. 

" Again, May 23, 1659. It is ordered that if any 
man's lott in this towne bee in the Judgment of men 
sufficiently fenced, and little piggs be permitted by 
the owner (notwithstanding warning) to come with- 
in such lottment, then vpon the oath of the tres- 
passed before one of the Magistrates the owner of 
such piggs shall pay 6d per pigg for every time any 
such pigg doe trespass as aforesaid. 

" 1647, May 3rd. Yt is ordered by the firemen 
appointed for the ffences of this present year that 
cows and goats shall not be left together neither by 
cow-keepers nor any of them, upon the penalty of 



MISCELLAXEOUS. 193 

lialve pence for every sucli default, also that yf the 
tToat-keepers shall willfully mingle their goats, they 
shall be lyable to the same penalty. 

" 1652. *It if concluded hy the major })art of the 
towne that the calfe heard shall he left for this en- 
suing yeare at Sagabonach where they were left the 
yeare past. 

" May 3, 1647. It is ordered that Thomas Hal- 
sey shall have his aforementioned 3 acres of his 
forty right laid out 16 poles in breadth, and whereas 
there is a highway eight poles wide between the said 
lot and the pond neere adjoining, the towne do give 
way to the said Thomas Halsey, to inclose to the 
pond the breadth of sixteen poles, but if hereafter 
the said inelosure of that part of the highway be- 
comes prejudicial to the towne in the eyes of the 
major part thereof the said parte of the highway so 
inclosed shall return to its former nature." 

This is not the only intimation on record of a road 
to the beach from Horsemill lane, lying between the 
eastern shore of the town pond and the foot of the 
home lots. It was probably closed soon after this 
time (1647) since no later mention is made of it. 

RECEPTION OF GOV. LOVELACE. 
" Southampton, Sept. 23, 1668. Whereas wee 
the subscribers the Inhabitants of the sd Southamp- 
ton do understand that our honrbl Governr Genrll 
Lovelace is to come down into this Country amongst 
V8 this Spring wee doe at this Towne meeting 
apoynt ffirstly that his hour be reed and entertained 
with the greatest respect whereof we are possibly 



194 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

capable and i*oe conducted to the place apjDoynted 
for his rtsidence comfort and most conveniency. 
Nextly whereas our sd Towne of Southampton have 
by right of equity and of law also many privilidges 
which many plantations on this Island hath not, as 
not only Indian Interest of or plantation but alsoe 
pattent right therein, and whereas It seemes to vs 
as if wee were like to be deprived of those our 
privilidges which at great rate we have procured and 
with nmch difficulty and danger wee have so many 
years possessed, and alsoe wee heareing by or Neigh- 
bours of the great goodnes Clemency and righteous 
proceeding of him our sd Governr wee do constitute 
& appoynt our aproved and well beloved friends Mr 
Robert Fordham Capt John Ilowell, Joshua Barnes 
& Mr Henry Pierson to represent unto his hour the 
true & reall state of vs our plantation and of all our 
Concernes hopeing his hour will accept ye psons of 
our sd deputies and theire argument reasons on our 
behalf, and grant our reasonable petitions by them 
to bee presented and demonstrated ; soe shall we all 
be ingaged ever to remaine his hours faithfuU friends 
& servants. 

" Edward Howell, John Topping, Thomas Hal- 
sey, Richard Barrett, Richard Howell, Samuel 
Johnes, Edmund Howell, Robert Wolley, ffrancis 
Sayer, John Jennings, Christp (his X mark) Lup- 
ton, Isack Willman, William Russell, Thomas 
Burnett, Obadiah Rogers, John Foster, Joseph Ford- 
ham, Thomas Sayer, Jonas Bower, John Jessiipp, 
ThomasiJGrouldsmith, John Woodruffe, John Bishop, 
ames Herreck, John Cooper, Benjamin Hayens, 



MISCELLANEOUS. 195 

Thomas Shaw, John Davis, G. Elarris, Zorohahell 
Phillips." 

A CASE OF SHARP PRACTICE. 

John Kelly, carpenter, was examined in court for 
an attempt at biga-my, and for having spoken falsely 
in declaring his wife was dead. He excused himself 
by saying she was dead in trespasses and sins. He 
had come here from Barbadoes leaving a wife behind 
him. 

THE CHRISTMAS STORM OF 1811, AND OTHER EVENTS. 

This winter was memorable for the severest storm 
within the memory of the present generation. It 
came on during the night of christmas. The even- 
ing before had been warm and hazy, so mild, indeed, 
that sheep and cattle were left out in the lots. 
About ten o'clock in the evening it began to rain, 
and about two o'clock the next morning it became 
intensely cold, and snow fell abundantly and con- 
tinually with a high wind, until banks were formed 
six and ten feet deep. All the next day the weather 
was too severe even in the blinding snow, and cold 
to rescue the sheep, many of which were smothered 
and perished. 

Another severe storm is spoken of in tradition, 
called Bower's snow storm, from the circumstance 
that at the time of its occurrence there was a wed- 
ino- at the house of Jonas Bower on the hill, in the 
house now owned by Mr. Shurder. It began to snow 
during the festivities, and so severe was the storm 
that many of the guests remained over night, but 
only in the morning to be obliged to clamber out of 



19G HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

second stc»iy windows, so deep drifted was the snow 
about the house. 

In 1815, occurred the greatest September gale 
within the memory of man in Southampton. jMany 
trees AA^ere overtlirown by its violence, and one house 
unroofed, while the roofs of two others were kept 
from meeting the same fate by lashing timbers 
across them to the beams within. The two houses 
thus saved were those now the residences of Mrs. 
Wm. T. Jones and Mr. Isaac P. Foster. 

3Ioney Vessel. — In September, 1816, a Spanish 
vessel came ashore a little to the westward of the 
village. She had been abandoned by her crew, a 
part or all of whom came ashore in her boats some 
place west of Southampton. She was much dam- 
aged, and was wrecked, i. e., taken to pieces slowly 
by the inhabitants. In the month of December 
following, her siding began to be broken off by the 
waves, and a stream of Spanish dollars poured out 
into the sand. For a time mining in this novel re- 
gion was as lively and as profitable as the later ope- 
rations in California. The vessel was supposed to 
have been a pirate and that the specie taken from 
plundered vessels had been hidden (unknown to the 
crew) in the ceiling by the captain, who had been 
made way with in a mutiny. Now and then a 
" sand dollar" is still picked up in the vicinity. 

PARMENAS HOWELL, PAINTER. 

He was one of nine children of Capt. Ezekiel 
Howell, and was born March 24, 1784. Having 
shown considerable talent in drawing while yet a 



MISCELLANEOUS. 197' 

youth, he was sent to New York to receive the ad- 
vantages of instruction in the studio. Here he re- 
mained some time profitahly employed in the study 
of his arts, his proficiency exciting hopes of a hril- 
liant career. Returning to Southampton, however, 
at an early age, he fell a victim to consumption — a 
disease which swept off the whole family of children 
as they successively reached maturity. 

DANIEL HALSEY. 

Mr. Daniel Halsey was born on the old homestead 
of his fathers in Wicka})ogue, April 1, 1796. He 
received a good school education, and pursued the 
study of the Latin and Greek languages under his 
pastor. Rev. David Bogart, in which he made very 
respectable attainments. He was much emj)loyed 
as a teacher, and with success and acceptance to 
scholar and parent. That some of the old poetic 
fire dwelt in him, the following spiiited lyric will 
testify, written for the occasion of celebrating our 
country's birthday, July 4, 1831 : 

When the Goddess of liberty found not a place 

Where the sole of her foot in the old world could rest, 
She directed the daring Columbus to trace 
A path to the New World unknown in the West ; 
In the wilds which she chose 
An Empire arose, 
As by magic, of freemen redeemed from their foefs, 
Redeemed from the hand of oppression and wrong. 
To the rights which by nature to all men belong. 

Here freedom and science and virtue expand, 
And plenty and peace are their constant attendants, 

Whilst the Genius of Liberty smiles on the land 
Of her choice with a glorious and godlike resplendence. 

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198 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

It was here she designed 
The oppressed of maQkind, 

And the exile a home and a refuge should find : 
With laws mild and equal her subjects are blest, 

And under her banner the lowly find rest. 

Let the wanderer then to her standard repair, 

We have room, ample room, to extend our dominion, 
And be free as the songsters that tenant the air. 
The masters of action, of word and opinion. 
Let us ever rejoice 
In the land of our choice. 
And our rulers elect by the popular voice. 
That the servants who serve us may act in the fear 

Of the Judge before whom they will shortly appoar. 
Ye sons of Columbia, come hall the glad day. 
The festival day of our land's Independence, 
' Our fathers determined to spurn lawless sway, 

And purchase fair freedom for us their descendants. 
By the favor of heaven 
The blessing was given 
To endure till the globe shall in sunder be i-iven ; 
For freedom is man's indisputable right, 
Of man in his weakness or man in his might. 
Then ye sous of America forever revere 

The names of your Country's most gallant defendants 
Their blood was the price of a purchase most dear, 
For millions this day of their happy descendants. 
Who swear to maintain 
Their noble domain, 
Unpolluted by tyrants while time shall remain ; 
Nor will tarnish the glory their ancestors won. 
While the words in their orbits revolve round the sun. 
Though the despots of Europe still rivet the chains. 

On the necks of their vassals and crush them to dust. 
Shall not heaven forbid that America's plains 
With the foot of a tyrant should e'er be accursed ' 
Be her freedom the same 
Till the angel proclaim. 
Time ends, and the world is enveloped in flames, 
And the empires of earth in one ruin are hurled 
At the great and the last winding up of the world. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 199 

Here is a fragment which, in its easy flowing 
style, reminds one of Pope. 

Hear when the widow and the orphan cry, 
And with a liberal hand the poor supply *, 
Nor with an envious eye the rich behold, 
None are the better for their sums of gold. 
A virtuous mind should be our only test, 
He is the worthiest man who is the best. 
Wealth can no real happiness bestow, 
How lew in higher life contentment know; 
Then to the will of heaven be thou resigned, 
Enjoy thy fortune and contentment find. 

When once requested to write an appropriate de- 
vice for his sign, by a tavern-keeper, Mr. Halsey 
sent him the following grim effusion : 

Rum, whisky, brandy, cordial, porter, beer. 

Ale, applejack and gin are dealt out here, 

Diluted, raw or mixt in any measure. 

To all consumers : come and act your pleasure, 

The above speciflcs will, in time, God knows, 

Put to a period all your earthly woes, 

Or would you bring life to a splendid close 

Take double swigs, repeating dose on dose ; 

A panacea this for every ail, 

'Twill use you up, 'twas never known to fail, — 

Use up your property, ere scarce you know it, 

Use up your character or sadly blow it, 

Use up your health, and strength and mind repose, 

And leave mayhap your carcass to the crows. 



CHAPTER XI. 

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 

(The following; abbreviations are used : " b " bom, " d " died, and sometimes 
daughter, "s" son, "m" married, "w"wife, "ch" children.) 

These records are gathered chiefly from the ToAvn 
Records, and given as a supplement to the genealo- 
gies. 

Ruth d of Richard Howell was b June 23 1669. 

Elizabeth d of Richard Smith was b Jan 1 1670. 

George Harris had d b Apr 6 1670. 

William Russell had s Oliver b May 7 1670. 

Samuel s of Samuel Whitehead b Feb 29 1684. 

John Earle had s David b Jan 11 1685. 

Samuel Whitehead had d Mary b Feb 14 1686. 

Benoni Flint had ch. Benjamin b Feb 2 1679, 
John b Sept 10 1680, Sarah b July 14 1683, and 
Mary b Aug 21 1685. 

Nathaniel Rusco had ch. Johana b Jan 20 1684, 
Mary b Sept 2 1685, Nathaniel b Sept 6 1686, and 
Ebenezer b Oct 10 1688. 

John Campbell had d Sarah b Dec 11 1687. 

John Bishop had ch. Mary b May 31 1682, Abi- 
gail b July 8 1683, Bethia b Feb 27 1684-5— Ex- 
])erience b Nov 30 1686, Mary b June 29 1688, and 
Eunice b June 17 1690. 

Walter Melvine had ch. John b Jan 3 1685, Han- 
nah b March 18 1688, and Martha b July 1 1691. 



MARRIAGES. 201 

• Samuel Butler had ch. Martha b Jan 18 1687, 
Sarah b Apr 4 1690, Amy b Sept 15 1692, Mary 
b April 5 1694, Nathaniel b April 4 1698, James b 
May 18 1700, and Gideon b Dec 11 1701. 

John Cook had d Mehetabel b Feb 8 1713. 

Thomas Reed had ch. Sarah b Aug 1 1706, 
Ashur b Sept 18 1711, Thomas b Apr 23, 1714, 
John b Apr 25 1717, Sybil b Jan 24 1720, Amy b 
Feb 8 1723 and David b Aug 10 1725. 

Humphrey Hughes had s Humphrey b Oct 2 1669. 

Ezekiel Sandford had ch. Ezekiel b Apr 9 1681 
and Thomas b Aug 9 1684. 

Samuel Bigelow had w Mehetabel, and ch. Abi- 
gail b Feb 10 1722-3, Timothy b Sept 19 1724, 
Mary b Sept 18 1726, Isaac b June 15 1730 and 
Samuel b Jan 12 1733-4. 

MARRIAGES. 

Daniel Foster m Lydia Wood, May 2^, 1710. 

Jeremiah Culver m 2d w Damaris d of Joseph 
Foster deced Dec 9 1714. 

David Haines m Abigail daughter of Christopher 
Foster Apr 25 1717. 

Samuel Jones Jr m Hannah d of Christo. Foster 
Oct 20 1715. 

Thomas Reed m Sarah d of Isaac Cory May 30, 
1704. 

John Jessup was married June 16 1669. 

Thomas James " " Sept 2 1669. 

John Wheeler " " Dec 9 1669. 

John Post " " Nov 3 1670. 

Job Sayre m Sarah Oct 27 1670. 



202 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Kichard WoodhiiU of Brookhavcn m Temperance 
Topping Nov 20 1684. 

Thomas Baker of E Hampton m Ann Topping 
April 29, 1686. 

John Laughton m Sarah Conkling of SouthulJ 
July 28 1680. 

Benoni Flint m Mary Browne d of William B 
June 10 1675. 

Lot Burnett m Phebe Mills Oct 20 1675. 

John Howell Jr m Martha White June 12 
1673. 

Samuel Whitehead m Mary Cooper Sept 12 
1682. 

Josiah Halsey m Sarah Topping Sept 12 1678. 

John Earle m Sarah Bay nor Nov 1678. 

Obadiah Rogers Jr m Sarah Howell Dec 20 
1683. 

Thomas Jessup m Mary Williams Nov 23 
1683. 

Jonas Bower m Ruth Howell Apr 12 1686. 

Joseph Hildreth m Hannah Jessup Sept 11 
1678. 

Job Sayre m 2nd w Wid Hannah Howell, June 
18 1685. 

John Larrison m Jemima Halsey May 22 1683, 
also he m 2nd w Wid Mary Howell Dec 20 1686. 

Joseph Marshall m Elizabeth Howell March 18 
1674. 

John Campbell m Sarah Hakelton d of Obadiah 
Rogers March 9 1687. 

Samuel Whitehead m Joanah Beebe Oct 24 
1689. 



DEATHS. 203 

Isaac Halsey m Abigail Howell Nov 28 1689. 

Joseph Fordham luanied Mary Malby Dec 5 
1689. 

John Howell Jr m Wid Mary Taylor Jan 30, 
1690. 

Kev Jabez Wakeman of East Jersey m Eunice, 
d of Matthew Howell Sept 29 1702. lie died and 
she m Joseph Talent of Hartford Ct June 26 

1706. 

DEATHS. 

John Shepherd d March 24 1683. 

David Howell d May 2 1684. 

Sarah w Job Sayre d Oct 29 1684. 

Sarah w Edmund Howell d Apr 10 168.5. 

Samuel Mill d April 1 1685. 

Sarah w Obadiah Rogers d Oct 11 1685. 

William Hakelton d Sept 6 1685. 

Mary w Samuel Whitehead d Apr 20 1687. 

Martha w John Howell d June 7 1688. 

Mary w Thomas Toi)ping d June 9 1688. 

Sarah w Edmund Howell d Aug 29 1688. 

Mary w Isaac Willman d Sept 3 1688. 

Martha w Jonah Fordham d Oct 4 1688. 

Amy w Joseph Pierson d Oct 3 1692. 

Sarah w Samuel Jijhnes d Oct 3 1692. 

Hannah w Christopher Foster d Feb. 7 1697. 

Mary w Jeremiah Culver, d Feb 23 1707. 

Joseph Foster d Jan 30 1708. 

Mary w Israel Howell d March 26 1716. 

Jeremiah Foster d May 25 1732 ae 24. 

Robert Patton d May 12 1700. 

Benoni Newton d March 4 1706 ae 53. 



204 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Robert Norris d July 23 1729. 
Manassah Kempton d Nov. 28 1737 ae 86. 
Caleb Dayton d Oct 4 1688. 
Richard Wood d May 16 1734 ae 57. 
Joana w Benoni Newton d May 1710 ae 56. 
Isaac Bower d Jan 20 1746 ae 78. 



CHAPTER XII. 

FAMILY RECORDS. 

(The same abbreviations used in this as in the preceding chapter. The 
figures prefixed to the names, serve only to identity them wherever found. In 
very many instances it has been found impossible to obtain the names of all 
the children of a man who, in a deed of gift, [perhaps the only information on 
record concerning his family,] merely mentions the name of the grantee.) 

At this distance of time it cannot be hoped to 
construct complete family records from the frag- 
mentary and indirect facts preserved in the records 
of the town ; and yet much has been accomplished 
from this source. In some instances the author has 
received valuable assistance in his labors from mem- 
bers of families now living. Nearly all such per- 
sons consulted could contribute their family record 
for two or three generations back, but earlier than 
that but few^ could give any reliable information. 

The old family records, if any were kept, have 
mostly perished in the lapse of ages, and it became 
necessary to collate and compare individual facts and 
statements without number, spread over hundreds 
of pages of manuscript, before what has been given 
could be ascertained with certainty. 

It has frequently happened that while the rela- 
tionship of father and son is clearly establishedfrom 
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206 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

records, yet the date of birth can no where be found. 
In some cases the date of birth can only be deter- 
mined proximately from tombstone inscriptions. 

BARNES FAMILY. 

The name of William Barnes first occurs in the 
list of 1644 and afterwards disappears altogether. 
It is probable he removed to, and was one of the 
first settlers of East Hampton. (It may be said 
here in parenthesis, the fact has been generally over- 
looked, but it is, nevertheless, the fact, that all of 
the nine first settlers of East Hampton, as given by 
Hon. Henry P. Hedges in his Address, were pre- 
viously among the inhabitants of Southampton, as 
well as nine more in the list of their associates.) 
Joshua Barnes, whose name is found in the list of 
1653 and onwards, was probably a son of William. 
Joshua had w Prudence and s Samuel Avho m Pa- 
tience Williams Nov 9 1676 and had ch. Patience 
b Aug 31 1677 Temperance b Jan 16 1679 
Joshua b April 8 1683. None of this name now 
reside in the village. 

BISHOP FAMILY. 

1 Richard Bishop of Salem Mass (freeman May 
18 1642 resident there in 1635 d Dec 30 1674) 
had sons, 2 Thomas, 3 John, and 4 Nathaniel. 3 
John came to Southampton, and is first mentioned 
on record in 1652, when he has a house lot and land 
granted him by the town, next north .of the home 
lot of Joshua Barnes. 4 Nathaniel was probably 
one of the first settlers of East Hampton. 3 John 
had ch. 5 Richard b Oct 17 1669 6 John b — 



FAMILY RECORDS. 207 

— 7 Samuel b and 8 Josiali . 6 John 

m. Lydia, and had ch. 9 John and 10 Samuel. 10 
Samuel had ch. 11 Abigail, 12 Phebe, 13 Mehetabel, 
14 Susana, 15 Daniel, 16 James, 17 John, 18 Sam- 
uel. 71 John, wlio had w Jerusha, and ch. 20 Mary 
w Nathan White, 21 Sophia w Stephen Burnett, 

22 Nancy w Benjamin Howell, 23 John, 24 Sarah 
w Aje Halsey, and 25 Maria w Peter Fouruier. 

23 John m Miranda d David White, and had ch. 
26 Elmira, 27 Matilda, 28 Janette, 29 Augusta, and 
30 Agnes. 18 Samuel d 1734, had w Elizabeth, 
and ch. 31 Samuel, and 32 Jeremiah. 31 Samuel 
had w Mary and ch. 33 Francis, 34 James, 35 
Charles, and 36 Jetur. 33 Francis has ch. 37 
Charles, and 38 Emma. 35 Charles has w Jane d 
of Wm. French and ch. 39 Edward, 40 William, 
41 Henry, 42 Nettie. 34 James has ch. James and 
Benjamin. 8 Josiah had w Elizabeth and ch. Mary 
b Nov 1 1709, Elizabeth b Sept 20 1715, and 
William b Dec 8 1718. From 8 Josiah have 
probably descended the Bishops in the western part 
of the town. 

BOWDEN FAMILY. 

In 1817 George Bowden came here from Eng- 
land, after a tempestuous voyage of one hundred 
and ten days duration. He married first Hannah 
Jagger, by whom he had two children, Edward and 
Lewis, the former of whom removed to Brooklyn. 
Lewis m Helen Davidson of Ann Arbor, Mich, 
and has ch. Harriet and Livingston. Mr. George 
Bowden m 2nd w wid Hannah Tuthill. 



208 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

:, BURNETT FAMILY. 

Thomas Burnett, the first of this name, came to 
Southampton quite early. Oct. 13 1643, the town 
grant him a home lot provided he stay three years. 
Mr. John R. Burnett, of South Orange, N. J., has 
furnished the record of the branches of this family 
who removed to N. Jersey. 

1 Thomas d about 1684 had 1st wife Mary and 
2nd w Mary Pierson whom he married in Lynn in 
1663 ; had ch. 2 John, 3 Aaron, b 1655 d 1755, 
4 Lot, 5 Joel, 6 Dan, 7 Mordecai, and 8 Matthias, of 
East Hampton, b 1674 d 1745. 

3 Aaron had ch. 9 Aaron and 10 Moses. 9 Aaron 
had w Sarah and ch. 11 James (the father 
of Rev Matthias D. D. of Jamaica L. I.) and 12 
Matthias, 13 William, the father of Rev. Eliezer of 
Newburg, N. Y.) and 14 Aaron. 10 Moses d 1741, 
had ch. 15 Justus, 16 William, 17 John, and 18 
Samuel. 

4 Lot had ch. 19 Joseph, 20 David b 1681 d 
1748, 21 Nathan, 22 Jonathan, 23 Ephraim '•' b June 
81693,24 Samuel b May 3 1695 and 25 Isaac. 20 Da- 
vidf had ch. 26 Stephen b 1708 d 1734. 27 Joseph d 
1770,and 28 David b 171 1 d 1735. 27 Joseph had ch. 29 
David b 1741 d 1807, and 30 Joseph. 29 David 
had w Sarah and ch. 31 David b 1786 d 1846, 
and 32 Matthias b 1782 d 1843. 31 David had w 



* Unless Ephraim was the son of Capt. Matthias of E. Hampton. 

t I find just as this is going to press, that David, s. of Lot, had 
only two children, both daughters, Sarah and Puah. Joseph the 
oldest son of Lot was therefore probably the father of Stephen, b 
1708, Joseph d 1770, and David b 1711, died 1735. 



FAMILY RECOUnS. 209 

Sybil atid ch. 33 David, 34 John F., 35 George, and 
36 Ma'ia w Lewis Sandford. 

33 David has 2nd w Sojjhronia and cli. Levi and 
David. 34 John F. has w Eliza d of David Jair- 
ger, and ch. William H., Sarah J., Marv and 
Ella J. 

32 Matthias had w Mary and ch. 37 Stephen, 
who has ch. Luther James, Mary A., Nelson, and 
Kowena. 

24 Samuel had s 38 Samuel, who had son 39 
Samuel h 1753 d 1819, who had son 40 Samuel, 
who had ch. 41 Samuel H. (father of Samuel) and 
42 John R. of Orange N. J. 

6 Dan had ch. 43 Daniel (who had son Daniel 
who moved to N. Jersey) and 44 Dr. Ichabod b 1773. 
44 Dr. Ichabod had sou or more probably gr son, 
Dr. William b 1763 who had ch. Jacob of Cincin- 
nati U. S. Senator Judge etc., and David the first 
president of Texas. 

8 Captain Matthias had w Elizabeth and son 
Stephen b 1708 d 1734. 

9 Aaron removed to neighborhood of Morristown 
N. J. 7 Mordecai removed to Elizabeth N. J. 10 
Moses removed to Brookhaven L.I. William M. D. 
s or gr son of Ichabod M. D. was a surgeon in the 
Continental Army of the Revolution and d in 1793. 

BUTLER FAMILY. 

The name of Samuel Butler first appears on the 
list of 1698. He was a merchant and lived on the 
present residence of Mr. Josiah Foster. In 1704 he 
wills to w Sarah and ch. Martha, Sarah, Amy, 



210 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Mary, Nathaniel and James. In 1753 James But- 
ler of Branford Ct. is mentioned in the Southampton 
records as the son of Nathaniel then deceased. The 
name has been extinct in the town for many years. 
8ee Chapter XI. 

CLARK FAMILY. 

This family has long been extinct in Southamp- 
ton. The name of Samuel Clark appears first on 
the list of 1657 as an inhabitant of North Sea. It 
is not known what relationship existed between the 
two Samuels, on the rate list of 1683 they appear 
to have been of the same generation and perhaps 
cousins. 

1 Samuel of North Sea m Susanah, d in 1684 had 
sons 2 Samuel and 3 Edmond. 2 Samuel of Old 
Town m Hester White July 11 1678 and had ch. 4 
James b Apr 19 1679, 5 Phebe b Aug 17 1681, 6 
Jeremiah b Feb 18 1685, 7 Charles and 8 William. 
3 Edmond had w Mary. The Samuel who in 1698 
lived in North Sea and may have been cousin to 2 
Samuel above, had w Sarah and ch. 9 Samuel, 10 
Elisha, 11 Eliphalet, 12 Mary, 13 Esther and 14 
Sarah. 9 Samuel had sons Job and Elisha. 11 
Eliphalet had ch. Eliphalet and Elisha. 

COOK FAMILY. 

1 Ellis Cook was one of the early settlers, his 
name appearing in the list of 1644. In 1663 he 
makes his will having w Martha and ch. 2 John, 3 
Ellis, 4 Martha, 5 Elizabeth and 6 Mary. Bis 
youngest son 7 Abial or Abiel was born soon after 
his death. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 211 

2 John h about 1656 d 1719 w Eliza had ch. 8 
John. 9 Obadiah b 1687, 10 Jonathan b 1700, 11 
Martha w of Fordam and 12 Elias. 8 John had s 
13 Deac John b 1722 d 1804. 13 Deac John had w 
Mary and s 14 John who had ch. 15 John b 1784 d 
1856 and 16 Henry. 15 John had w Betsey and 
ch. 17 John L., 18 Samuel. and 19 William. 17 
John L. has son John. 16 Henry had s William. 

12 Elias had ch. 20 David b 1720 d 1812, 21 
Nathan and probably 22 Elias. 20 David had ch. 
23 Samuel, 24 David, (who removed) 25 Jonathan, 
(who removed) 26 Theophilus and 27 Topping. 

23 Samuel had ch 28 Sullivan, 29 Jeremiah H. 
30 Samuel, (who had s Lawrence) 31 Baldwin, 32 
Linsley (who had ch. William and Nehemiah) 33 
Edward, 34 Elizabeth, and 35 Albert (who has ch. 
Theodore, Edward, Adelaide and Phebe I.) 28 Sul- 
livan has ch. 36 Richard, 37 Rogers, and 38 Eliza- 
beth w Henry M. Rose. 36 Richard has ch. Alice, 
Kate, Emily and William. 37 Rogers has d 
Mary. 

26 Theophilus had ch. 39 Silas, (who had ch, 
Nathan, Lodowick and Hubbard) 40 Charles, 41 
David, (who had ch. Thomas and Harriet E. w Chas. 
Osborn of E. Hampton), 42 Nathan b 1768, 43 Al- 
fred, 44 Hedges and 45 Hubbard. 

27 Topping had ch. 46 Alanson, (who had s Ad- 
dison) 47 William, 48 Howell (who had ch. Henry 
and Williams) and 49 Lyman. 

22 Elias had s 50 Elias who had sons 51 Stephen, 
52 Henry and 53 Elias. 51 Stephen had sons 54 
Hervey (who had sons Baldwin, Elmer and Henry) 



212 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

and 55 Baldwin. 53 Elias had sons Henry, Jere- 
miah and Sylvanus. 

10 Jonathan h 1700 d 1754 had ch. 56 Daniel 
and 57 Jonathan. 57 Jonathan had ch. 58 Daniel 
h 1761, 59 David b 1763, 60 Esther b 1765, 61 Ne- 
hemiah B b 1764, 62 Isaac, 63 Hannah, 64 Phebe 
b 1778 w James Foster, 65 Jonathan b 1779,66 
llichard b 1781, 67 Mary w Mr Bliss of Mich. 68 
David b 1787 and Eliza b 1789. 

56 Daniel had ch. 69 Ebenezer, 70 Rev. Nehemiah, 
71 Luther (of Beaverdam who has ch. Hannah, 
John, Sarah and Daniel B.) 72 Melinda and 73 Jane. 
()5 Jonathan had w Miriam d of Wm. Halsey and 
ch. Edwin, Emmeline, Mary, (who m Henry Tabor 
of Brooklyn) William, Grover, Ezra and Francis 
who has ch. Henry F., William and Lilys. 

66 Richard had ch. 74 Jane w of Mr. Jordan of 
Mich. 75 Eliza w of H. Jenning (who had d Nora) 
and 76 John of Brooklyn. 62 Isaac had ch. Floyd 
and Hudson. 68 David had ch William, Anne, 
Margaret and Harriet w of C. Miller of N. Y. 

7 Abial b 1663 had ch. 77 Abial and 78 Josiah, 
77 Abial d 1740 had ch. Phebe, Susana, Ellis, Mat- 
thew, Abial, Zebulnn, Samuel, Elemuel, Abigail 
and Anna. 

Ellis Cook, s of Ellis the first, when a young man, 
cleared up a place, built a house on it, and then, 
(maidens, it is said, being scarce in Southampton) 
went over to Connecticut for a wife. After staying 
there some time, and having found a young lady to 
suit him, her father asked a friend one day what 
young Cook's business was that detained him so 



FAMILY RECORDS. 213 

long in that neighborhood. He was told that tlie 
young man was courting his daughter. " Why 
don't he af^k me then.^ " said the father. And see- 
ing Cook shortly afterward be repeated the question 
to him. " That is just what I was about to do," 
said Ellis ; and thereupon the following dialogue 
ensued : " Where do you live ? " " In South- 
ampton, L. I." "Have you a church there?" 
(meaning a church organization.) " Yes." " A 
minister.^" "Yes." "A meeting house?" 
" Yes." " Have you got a house to live in ? " 
" Yes." " Well then, young man, you may have 
my daughter," and the maiden assenting, the mar- 
riage soon followed and Ellis led his bride to her 
new home in the forests of Southampton. 

Ellis Cook the original settler first lived in South- 
ampton village — then moved to Watemiill where 
he died. Abial lived in Wateimill, then called 
Mill Neck, and John and Ellis Jr. in Bridge Hamp- 
ton. 10 Jonathan removed from B. Hampton to 
New Jersey and thence to Quogue L. 1. where he 
died in 1754. 

COOPER FAMILY. 

John Cooper of Lynn, Mass., came from England 
in 1635 in the Hopewell, aged 41 v/ith w and ch. 
Mary aged 13, John 10, Thomas 7, and Martha 5. 
He was from Olney, Co. of Bucks or Backingham- 
shire. He was one of the twenty heads of families 
who formed the association for the settlement of 
Southampton in 1639. He was made freeman at 
Boston Dec 6 1836 : was one of the elders of the 
church when it was oi'ganized at Lynn, and in 1638 
28 .\i^l 



2l4: HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

lie is recorded as owning 200 acres of land in that 
town. 

As above 1 John b 1594 d 1662, had ch. 2 Mary 
b 1622, 3 John b 1625 d 1689, 4 Thomas b 162S 
and 5 Martha b 1630. 

3 John had w Sarah and ch. 6 John d 1717, 7 
fSamuel, 8 James and 9 Abraham b 1689 d 1773. 
6 John had w Hannah and ch. 10 Hannah b 1709, 
11 Thomas b 1710 d 1782, 12 Mehetabel and 13 
John. 

11 Thomas had w Mary and ch. 14 Elias b Sept 
30 1734, 15 Mary and 16 Hannah, twins b 1736, 17 
Thomas b 1738, 18 Mehetabel b 1741, 19 John b 
1743 and 20 Caleb b 1745. 14 Elias had w Ruth 
Rogers and ch. 21 Charles b Aug 19 1759, 22 Oba- 
diah b Dec 22 1760, 23 Susana b Nov 29 1762, 24 
Apollos b Feb 2 1767 (who went to Utica N. Y.), 
25 Elias b May 21 1769, and 26 Hannah b May 19 
1773. 

22 Obadiah had ch. 27 Elias (who had s Charles) 
28 Oliver b 1796 (who had s Franklin H. of Quogue), 
and 29 Apollos. 

20 Caleb had w Abigail and ch. 30 William of 
Sag Harbor, 31 Caleb and 32 Huntting of Sag Har- 
bor, (who has s William of Montrose Pa.) 30 Wil- 
liam had sons William and Gilbert both of Sag 
Harbor. 

13 John had ch. 33 Samuel, 34 EHhu and 35 
Zophar. 35 Zophar had ch. 36 Ananias, 37 Mary, 
and 38 Nathan who had s 39 Mercator. 39 Merca- 
tor had 1st w Maria J. d of John Green, and ch. 
Maria J. and Sarah E. He m 2nd w Sophia J. d of 
Josiah Foster, 



FAMILY RECORDS. 215 

8 James had ch. 40 Nathan, 41 James and 42 
Elizabeth. 41 James b about 1700 had ch. 43 
Philip, 44 James, 45 Zebulon, 46 Stephen, 47 
Moses, 48 Benjamin, 49 Ezekiel, 50 Silas and 51 
Selah. 45 Zebulon had s 52 Sylvanus who had 
among other children Rev Charles W. of Babylon, 
L. I. 

9 Abraham had ch. 53 Bethia and 54 Abraham b 
about 1720 d 1793 who m Johana Howell and had 
ch. 55 John b May 22 1758, 56 Abraham b Jan 1 
1761, 57 Gilbert b Feb 26 1763, 58 Hannah b Aug- 
6 1765 (w of Henry Rhodes,) 59 Mehetabel b Feb 
9 1768 (w of Benj'n Huntting), 60 Foster b — and 
61 Jane. 

55 John m Susana d of Zebulon Howell Aug 12 
1778 and had ch. 62 Abraham (who has son Howell 
of Watertown,) and 63 Zebulon of Utica N. Y. 
who d 1831. 

4 Thomas b 1628 d 1687 had w Mary and ch. 64 
Thomas, 65 Ichabod, 66 Benjamin and 67 Eliza- 
beth. 64 Thomas had w Hannah and ch. 68 
Thomas, 69 John, 70 David, 71 Ebenezer, 72 Phebe 

•w of Culver, and 73 Mary w of Jones. 68 

Thomas had s 74 Ananias who had ch. 75 Matthew 
H. b 1758 d 1842 and 76 Ananias. 75 Matthew 
had ch. 77 Patty and 78 John H. b 1792 d 1850. 
78 John H. had w Harriet and s Thomas of B. 
Hampton. 

69 John had ch. John and Ananias. 

70 David had ch. 79 Josiah, 80 Silas, 81 David 
and 82 Simon. 

80 Silas had ch. 83 James B. b 1777, 84 Simon 



216 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

W. b 1779 (wlo liad s James B. of Babylon L. I.,) 
85 Silas, 86 Peleg and 87 Nathaniel. 

ADDITIONAL NOTES. 

55 John had ch. Juliana b Aug 4 1770, 62 Abra- 
liani b June 14 1781, Ooraelia b Aug- 22 1783, So- 
phia b Sept 12 1785, Hannah b Nov 5 1787, and 
63 Zebuluu EI. b Jan 17 1792. The last three were 
born at Montgomery, Ulster Co. N. Y. 

62 Abraham m Susana Howell and had ch. Em- 
meline, Abraham and Howell, and by a second w 
(Harriet Howell) George, Nicoll J., John J. of 
Brooklyn and Elias F. 62 Abraham died at Ox- 
born N. Y. Feb 7 1861. 

68 Thomas removed to Bridge Hampton where 
some of his descendants now live. 

41 James wills in 1753 to w Mary and daughters 
Elizabeth, Abigail and Mary and to the nine sons 
before given. 

79 Josiah was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, 
and afterwards settled at New Paltz in Ulster Co. 
N. Y. His bro Silas m Elizabeth d of Rev James 
Brown of B. Hampton. When the British occu- 
pied B. Hampton he with other whigs fled to Gro- 
ton Ct., and lost all his property by the war. The 
third bro Simon a sea captain was lost with all his 
crew on Nantucket shoals. Simon W. removed to 
Babylon in 1804 where his son James B. now re- 
sides. 

COR WITH FAMILY. 

David Corwith or Carwithy, the first of this name, 
is said to have been a French Huguenot, though the 



FAMILY RECORDS, 217 

name would indicate a previous Welsh origin. He 
came lo Bridge Hampton and manied a sister of 
Dea. James Haines and lived in Rufus Rose's Lane 
where he had a store. The date of his arrival is 
not known. While such is the account received 
from one of the family, the name of a Caleb Car- 
withy is found on the Town Record as early as 1661 
and a John C. in 1682. 

1 David above, is said to have had two sons 2 Ca- 
leb and 3 David. 2 Caleb had ch. 4 Caleb and 5 
John. 4 Caleb had ch. 6 James, (who had ch. Si- 
las, Charles, Cakb H., Samuel and Leauder,) 7 Si- 
las' 8 William, 9 Luther (who removed) and 10 John. 
10 John had ch. 11 Silas, (who had s Silas) 12 Wm. 
Henry, 13 Luther, 14 Egbert, 15 James and 16 
John. ' 5 John had s Samuel. 3 David had ch. 17 
David B. (who had son Burnett) 18 Henry and 19 
Caleb who had ch. Nathan, David and Sarah. 18 
Henry had ch. 20 David, 21 Frank, 22 Gordon (who 
has ch. William, Sarah and John E.) and 23 W^il- 
liam who has s Augustus. 

CULVER FAMILY. 

1 Edward Culver of Dedham, Mass., had ch. 2 
John b April 15 1640, 3 Joshua b Jan 12 1643, 4 
Samuel b Jan 9 1645, 5 Gersham baptized Dec 3 
1648. 1 Edward d at Mystic Ct. When his s 5 
Gersham came to Southampton is not known, but 
not in the earliest period since, his name does not 
occur in any of the lists previous to 1668. 

5 Gersham d 1717 had w Mary and ch. 6 Jere- 
miah, 7 David, 8 Jonathan, 9 Gersham, 10 Mary, 



218 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

11 Nahum, and 12 Moses. 6 Jeremiah liad w Mary 
d of Joseph Pierson, m Dec 22 1700, and ch, 13 
Jeremiah b April 23 1702, 14 Mary b Feb 5 1704, 
and 15 Jesse b Feb 20 1707, (who had s Edward.) 

13 Jeremiah had ch. 16 Ebenezer, and 17 Jere- 
miah, who had s 18 Jeremiah. 18 Jeremiah had cli, 
Austin of Moriches, (who has s Dr. Josiah,) and 
Susan w of Thomas Isaacs of E. Hampton, who 
has ch. Phebe, Susan M. and Sarah C. 

9 Gersham had s 19 Gersham, who had s 20 Ger- 
sham, who had s 21 William, who had s 22 Merit, 
who has s William and other children. 

12 Moses had s 23 James, who had ch. 24 Moses 
b 1762, 25 George b 1772 and 26 Mark b 1771. 24 
Moses had w Prudence and s Elias, who had w Sarah, 
and moved away. 

DAYTON FAMILY. 

Ralph Dayton, from the records of the town, ap- 
pears to have resided here a short time. He was 
one of the early settlers of East Hampton and had 
a son Robert, also, who settled there and became 
the progenitor of the Dayton families now resident 
there. Their genealogy has already been given in 
Hedge's Address. Ralph had another son, Samuel, 
who, previous to 1648, was an inhabitant of Flush- 
ing, then came to Southampton, but his name dis- 
appears after 1658. He had a residence in North 
Sea, and probably removed to New Jersey with 
others who emigrated thither about this time. 
ELLSWORTH FAMILY. 

Roswell Ellsworth resided in Rhode Island. His 
son Roswell removed to Washington Co. N. Y. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 219^ 

Noah D. son of the second Roswell, removed to 
Southampton about 1836. He had ch. Alvah N., 
Robert, John H., William R., Egbert and Eliza- 
beth. John H. m Jan 1866 Nancy d of William 
Huntting. 

FITHIAN FAMILY. 

The first settler of this name on Long Island was 
William. According to the tradition in the family- 
he was a native of Wales, — then afterwards a sol- 
dier in Cromwell's army — present at the execution 
of Charles I., and after the restoration of Charles 
II. was proscribed as a Regicide, and obliged to flee 
his country. He came to Boston, thence to Lynn, 
thence to New Haven, thence to East Hampton 
where he remained and died Dec. 10 1678. 

1 William d 1678 had ch. 2 Enoch b 1646 d 1726, 
and 3 Samuel, the latter of whom probably removed 
since we know nothing of him or his descendants. 

2 Enoch m Miriam Burnett June 25 1675, and 
had ch. 4 Aaron b 1684 d 1750, 5 David, 6 Samuel, 
7 Sarah, and Jonathan of Philadelphia. 4 Aaron 
had s 9 Capt. David b 1728 d 1805 who had w Es- 
ther and ch. 10 David, 11 Aaron, 12 Capt. Jona- 
than, 13 Elisha, and 14 Lucre tia, 11 Aaron had s 
15 Enoch who had ch. 16 Abraham and 17 David of 
N. York City. 16 Abraham of E, Hampton has 
ch. Isabel and Jerusha. 

12 Capt. Jonathan had ch. 18 Mary, 19 Elizabeth, 
20 Jonathan, b 1796 d 1865, 21 Aaron and 22 
Jerusha w Patrick Grould of E. H. 20 Jonathan 
had w Abbie d Thos. Sayre and ch 23 Elizabeth w 
Rev. S. Hampton Jagger, 24 Harriet w David R. 



220 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTOSr. 

Drake, 25 Louisa, 26 Mary and 27 Margaret. 21 
Aaron had ch. Mary A, Jonathan, William and 
Jerusha. 

13 Elisha had s Samuel of Southold who has s 
William. 

FORDHAM FAMILY. 

An account of the Rev. Robert Forilham the an- 
cestor of this family in Southampton has been given 
before, Chapter VII. He d about 1673, and had w 
Elizabeth and ch. 2 Captain Joseph, 3 Robert, 4 
Rev. Jonah, 5 John and 6 Mary w of Edward Howell. 

2 Capt. Joseph d 1688 had ch. 7 Major Joseph b 
July 30 1669, 8 Elizabeth, 9 Nathan and 10 Pela- 
tiah, 7 Joseph had w Mary and ch. Mary b Marcli 
11 1691, 12 Joseph b Sept 19 1693, 13 Phebe b 
July 22 1696, 14 Alexander b Oct 3 1700, 15 John 
b Oct 27 1703, and 16 Hannah b July 19 1707. 12 
Joseph d about 1726, had w Martha and ch. 17 Jo- 
seph and 18 Abraham who had s 19 Abraham. 19 
Abraham had ch. 20 Daniel, 21 Charles, 22 Frank, 
23 George, 24 Merit and 25 Mehetabel. 20 Daniel 
had w Mary Halsey and ch. Mary, Nancy, Susan, 
Elizabeth, Eli P., Henry A. and William F. 24 
Merit had w Mary A. and ch. Orlando, Jeremiah, 
Elenore, John H. and Mary J, 

9 Nathan had ch. 26 John and 27 Nathan. 27 
Nathan had ch. 28 George, 29 Nathan and 30 Dan- 
iel. 28 George had ch. 31 George, 32 Jared, 33 
Caleb b 1758, and 34 Silas. 33 Caleb had ch. 35 
George of New York, 36 Caleb of New York,' 37 
Jacob and 38 Eliza w Silas Rose of Hadlyme Ct. 
29 Nathan had ch. 39 Nathan and 40 Jairus. 39 



FAMILY RECORDS. 22 I 

Nathan had ch. 41 Robert, 42 JeftVey, 43 Nathan, 
44 Hugh and 45 Henry. 41 Robert had ch. Charles, 
Rob. Bruce and Lodowick. 42 .leftVey had ch. Na- 
than and Thomas. 43 Nathan had ch. Samuel, 
Oscar, John and Elbert. 44 Hugh had w Phebe 
and d Rowena w of Alfred Robinson. 45 Henry 
had s Nathan. 

40 Jairus had ch. 46 Hubbard, 47 Nicholas, (who 
had son William) and 48 Frederic. 

9 Nathan or 10 Pelatiah was the grandfather of a 
John Fordham, who had s John, who had ch. 49 
Pelatiah, 50 Nathan Y. and 51 Charles. 49 Pela- 
tiah had ch. Charles and John. 

FOSTER FAMILY. 

Christopher Foster came from England in the 
Abigail, in 1635, aged 32, with w Frances 25, and 
ch. Rebecca 5, Nathaniel 2, and John 1. He was 
made freeman at Boston April 17, 1637. Same 
year he resided in Lynn, where in 1638 (according 
to Lewis, Hist, of Lynn) 60 acres of land were al- 
lotted to him. He came here probably between 
1649 and 1653. fJis sou Nathaniel removed to 
Huntington, L. L, and resided. 

The following is believed to be the coat armor of 
this family — Argent on a bend wavy sable three 
bucks' heads caboshed. 

1 Christopher b 1603 d 1687, had w Frances and 
ch. 2 Rebecca b 1630, 3 Nathaniel b 1633, 4 John 
b 1634, 5 Benjamin, 6 Joseph, 7 Hannah and 8 
Sarah. 

4 John had ch. 9 John b Feb 8 1662, 10 Sarah 
29 



222 HISTOKY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

b Jan 29 1604, 11 Hannah b Jan 2 1067. 12 Jeie- 
mian b March 7 1671, 13 Patience b March 7 1673, 
14 Rachel b Feb 2 1675, 15 Jonathan b April 2 
1677, 16 David b March 15 1«79, 17 William h 
April 2 1681, 18 Phebe b April 1 1683, and 19 Abi- 
gail b Feb 1685. 9 John d 1727, m Hannah Abbot 
Dec 5 1689, and had ch. 20 John b 1695 d 1762. 
and 21 Hachaliah b 1700 d 1775, and prob. others. 
20 John had 1st w Sybil and ch. 22 John, 23 James, 
24 Chloe, 25 Keturah, 26 Josiah and 27 Samuel. 
26 Josiah had w Esther (lived in Quogue) and ch. 
28 Justus, 29 Josiah, 30 James b 1774 d. 1863, 31 
Cephas, 32 John and 33 Isaac, who removed to 
Honesdale, Penn. 28 Justus had cL. 34 Halsey 
(who had ch. Josiah and Henry,) 35 Horace, 36 Jo- 
siah, 37 John F. (who has ch. Margaret, Sophia, and 
Fanny,) 38 Solon, 39 William of New Orleans and 
40 Franklin. 29 Josiah had w Abigail d of Zebu- 
lun Jessup, and ch. 41 Benjamin H. (who has ch. 
Oliver, Benjamin and James E.) 42 Mehetabel, 43 
George (who has ch. George and Henry) 44 Josiah, 
45 Jeremiah and 4h Sophia w Mercator Cooper. 
30 James had w Phebe Cook and ch. 47 Albert (who 
has son James H.) 48 Isaac P. (who has ch. Ed- 
ward H. and Clara) and 49 Esther w John P. Iler- 
rick, M. D., (who has ch. Louisa, Dr. John C. and 
Henry.) 31 Cephas had s Erastus who had cli. 
Julia P. and Sarah. 

12 Jeremiah had ch. Stephen, Nathan, and five 
daughters. 

5 Benjamin had w Lydia and ch. 50 Benjamin, 
51 Deborah, 52 Jonathan, 53 Mary b July 29 1669, 



FAMILY RECORDS. 223 

54 Siisana, 55 Isaac and 56 David of Cohanzy. 
50 Benjamin had w Martha and ch, 51 Martha b 
l(i92, 58 Bethia b 1694, 59 Sarah b 1697, 60 
Ephraim b 1699, 61 Benjamin b 1701, 62 William 
h 1704 and 63 Stephen b 1708. 60 Ephraim had 
rli. 64 David, and 65 William b 1759 d 1826. 64 
David ha^d s David who has ch. Benjamin C. and 
Harriet. 65 William had w Hannah and ch. 66 
Selden (who has d Mary) and 67 William who re- 
sides in Montrose Pa. 

()3 Stephen had son Matthew b 1768 d 1852, who 
liad w Hannah and ch. 68 B Halsey b 1796 d 1863, 
and 69 Stephen (who had ch. James, Ann E. and 
Samuel.) 68oB. Halsey m Fanny Sayre, and had ch. 
Phebe w Theod. Pierson, William S., Thomas H., 
Clara, Annette w Gilbert Huntting, P^lecta and 
( leorge. 

6 Joseph d 1708, had ch 70 Joseph, 71 Jeremiah 
and 72 Christopher. 70 Joseph had ch. 73 Daniel, 
74 Damaris, 75 Jeremiah, 76 Peter, 77 Penelope, 78 
Joseph, 79 Christopher and 80 Nathan of Elizabeth 
N.J. 

73 Daniel d about 1741 had w Lydia and ch. 81 
Jonas b March 25 1711 d 1793, 82 Lydia b April 30 
1713, 83 Mehetabel b Jan 24 1715, 84 Abigail b Oct 
8 1719; 85 Daniel b March 22 1722, 86 Phebe b 
Sept 27 1724 and 87 Christopher. 81 Jonas had 
ch. 88 Jedediah, 89 Abraham, 90 Daniel and 91 
Wakeman (who had ch. John and Malbey). 88 Jede- 
diah removed to Palmyra N. Y., and had ch. Joel, 
Abraham, Cyrus, Zenas and Pliny. 

78 Joseph' had ch. 92 Deborah b Sept 17 1701, 



224 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

and 93 Joseph b July 27 1704, 93 Joseph had ch. 
Abigail b 1726, Damaris b 1730, Hannah b 1733, 
Prudence b 173(5, Enice b 1739, and Christopher b 
1743. 

72 Christopher b 1668 m 1st w Hannah d of Samuel 
PiersQn of E. H. Nov 26 1691, and 2Dd w Abigail 
Topping d Christopher Lupton, Aug 19 1697, and 
had ch. Abigail b Oct 27 1692, and Hannah b Oct 
28 1694. 

91 Wakeman lived alone with his family at Pond- 
quogue during the Kevolutionary war. On one oc- 
casion some British troops ap])eared at his house 
and commanded him to yoke up his oxen and draw 
a boat over fioni the Peconic to Shinnecock Bay. 
He did so — got the boat and started with a British 
guard in the rear. On the journey across, evening 
came on, and Wakeman took advantage of the 
darkness and })layed the guard a Yankee trick. All 
the time crying whoa ! at the top of his voice. He 
began to hrad up the oxen with his goad until they 
ran at their utmost speed. The British, thinking 
from his cries the oxen would soon stop, did not at- 
tempt to overtake him, and as soon as he was beyond 
their hearing, he turned the cattle into the brush, 
and that was the last they ever saw of their boat. 

FOURNIER FAMILY. 

1 Francis Fournier, with others, came from France 
during our Revolutionary war, to assist in the strug- 
gle for our independence. After peace took place 
he resided at Red Creek. He had ch. 2 John, 3 
Joshua, 4 Barnabas and 5 Petei-, who resided at 



jL family records. 225 

Nurtli Sea. 2 John had ch. Ann w Deac. John 
White, Francis and Oliver. 4 Barnabas had ch. 
Barnabas and Joshua. 5 Peter had ch. 6 Hiram, 
7 Peter, 8 John and 9 Frank'in. 7 Peter has ch, 
Arabella, John F., Justina w I. L. Sandford, Fanny 
and Ann E. 

FOWLER FAMILY. 

In 1678, 1 Christopher Fowler is granted a house 
lot. He died March 24 1683. A 2 Kichard Fowler 
who succeeded him ap])ears to have been his only 
son. 2 Richard had son 3 John, who had ch. 4 Wil- 
liam and 5 Kichard — the latter of whom had ch. 6 
John, 7 Oliver, 8 Apollos and 9 George. 6 John 
had 8 William, who has ch. Edward, John Phebe, 
Mary, Evelyn and Jesse. 

GELSTON FAMILY. 

There are none of this family, in the knowledge 
of the writer, living in the town of Southam})ton. 
The first of this name was Hugh, who came here 
probably not many years previous to 1717, when 
his brother, Rev. Samuel, was settled as colleague 
with Mr. Whiting. 1 Hugh had ch. 2 Rev. Malbey 
and 3 Hugh b 1698 d 1775. 3 Hugh had w Mary 
and ch. 4 Hugh and 5 Deac. Malbey of Bridge Hamp- 
ton b 1723 d 1783. 5 Deac. Malbey had ch. 6 John 
b 1750 d 1831 (who had w Phebe and d Elizabeth). 
7 David of N. York, 8 Thomas of B. Hampton, 9 
William of Hadlyme Ct., 10 Hugh of Sag Harbor, 
and 11 Jane w of David Sayre of Sagg. 9 Wil- 
liam had ch. 12 William (who has ch. Malbey and 
j John), 13 Richard and 14 Malbey. 



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226 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 



GOODALL FAMILY. 

The Jirst mention of this name is on the list of 
1698 where it is written Goodale. The Groodalesof 
that list appear to form one family, of husband, wife 
and live children ; and the data furnished by the 
family cojiiirm this supposition. Assuming this to 
be tiue, 1 Joseph had w Elizabeth and ch. 2 Jona- 
than, 3 William, 4 Joseph, 5 Mary and 6 Hannah. 
One of these, probably Joseph, had s 7 Josejjh, who 
had ch. 8 Jehiel, 9 Silas, 10 Stephen, 11 Joseph,' 
12 Mary and 13 Nancy. 8 Jehiel had ch. 14 Alanson 
(who had ch. Edward and Susan w of Julius Fos- 
ter) and 15 Charles (who has ch. Charles and others.) 

GREEN FAMILY. 

1 John Green came to Southampton from Ireland, 
a young man, about the time of the Revolutionary 
war. He married and had ch. 2 Henry 3 Barney, 
4 Aaron, 5 William, 6 James, 7 Maria I., w of 
Mercator Cooper and 8 Dorinda. 2 Henry removed 
to Southold. 4 Aaron had ch. Henry, George, Bar- 
ney, Mercator, Adeline w of James Rogers and Al- 
bina. 3 Barney had ch. Justina w of E. A. Carpen- 
ter and Mary w of Ira B. Tuthill. James has s 
James and other children. 

HALLOCK FAMILY. 

Peter Hallock came from England and was one 
of the first settlers of Southold. Returning soon 
after to England, he married a widow Howell, whom 
he brought over with her son Richard, then a lad. 
Such portion of the genealogy as concerns the Hal- 



FAMILY RECOUDS. 227 

locks of Southampton,' is here given from tlie family 
record published by Rev. Wm. A. Hallock D. D. 

16 Jabez wrote his name Halleck. 

1 Peter had 32 William, who d 1684, leaving ch. 
3 Thomas, 4 Peter, 5 William d 1736, and 6 John. 
3 Thomas had ch. 7 Thomas, 8 Zerubbabel 9 Kings- 
land and 10 Richard. 8 Zerubbabel had s 1 1 Zerub- 
babel, who had s 12 Daniel, who had ch. 13 Micah, 
(the father of Dr. David H. of Southam{)ton,) and 
14 Ezra, the father of Deac. Geo. W., Ezra Y. and 
Joseph N. of Franklinville. 

4 Peter had s 15 Peter, who had ch. 16 Jabez and 

17 Frederic. 16 Jabez had s 18 Josej)!!, who had s 
Henry W., Major Gen. U. S. A. 17 Frederic had 
s 19 Frederic, who had ch. Harvey of B. Hampton, 
and Capt. Franklin, N. Y. V. 

5 William had s Joshua, who had s David, who 
had s John of Moriches, who had s David of Bridge 
Hampton. 

HALSEY FAMILY. 

Thomas Halsey, the first of this name, was one 
of the twenty original settlers whose names are af- 
fixed to the articles of agreement formed in Lynn. 
In 1637 he was a resident of Lynn, and in 1638 lie 
owned there 100 acres of land. His first wife, as 
before narrated, was murdered by two Indians. He 
married, as his second w Ann wid of Edward Johnes, 
March 1660. The arms of this family in Hertford- 
shire, Eng., are, Argent, three boars' heads couped 
in pale sable. 

1 Thomas d 1678 had ch. 2 Thomas, 3 Isaac, 4 
Daniel and 5 Elizabeth. 2 Thomas had ch. 6 Marv 



'■^'■^^ HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

h Aug 29 16'54. 7 Elizabeth b Oct 15 1655, 8 Jo- 
siah b Feb 15 1656-1, 9 Sarah b Oct 29 1658, 101 
Isaac b Aug 29 1660, 11 David b Aj)r 12 1663' 12 
Hannah b Feb 5 1665, 13 Jeremiah b Sept 7 1667, 
14 Jonathan b Dec. 22 1669, 15 Phebe b Dec 29 
1671, 16 Abio-ail b April 19 1673, and 17 Nathaniel 
b June 1 1675. 

8 Josiah d 1739, liad 2nd w Mary and ch. 18 
Martha, 19 Eliz.ibeth, 20 Deac. Josiah b 1692 d 
1744, and 21 Mary. 20 Deac. Josiah had ch. 22. 
Israel, who had ch. 23 Willman b 1750 d 1786, 24 
John and 25 Stephen. 23 Wiilman had s 26 Bar- 
ziljai, b 1776 d 1849, who had w Fanny and s Enoch. 
20 Deac. Josiah had also s 27 Zebulon b 1730 d 
1806, who had ch. 28 Zebulon b 1755 d 1817, 29 
Edward, 30 Paul, 31 Philip, and 32 Peter of Cairo 
N. Y., (who had ch. Peter, George, of Riverhead, 
and Oliver, also of Riverhead. 28 Zebulon had ch'. 

33 Edward b 1790 d 1858, (who had ch. Stephen, 
Susan w of Edwin Post, Samuel B. and Maria) and 

34 Andrew, who has son Henry A. and others. 30 
Paul had s 35 Caleb, who has ch. Caroline, Edwin, 
Charles S. and .Mary. 

10 Isaac d 1757 had w Mary and ch.'36 Isaac b 
1693 d 1725 and 37 Ephraim. 36 Isaac had ch. 38 
(.^ornelius d 1782 and 39 Sylvanus, (who was b 1723 
d 1815, and had ch. Zephaniah and Jabez). 

38 Cornelius m Jan 10 1751, Milicent Rogers, 
and had ch. 40 Timothy b Jan 1 1753, 41 William 
b Aug 14 1754, 42 Mary b Jan 9 1756, 43 Milicent 
b Aug 27 1757, 44 Martha b Jan 19 1759, 45 Fred- 
eric b March 2 1761, 46 Cleopatra b Apr 13 1763, 



FAMILV RECORDS. 229 

47 Ptuth I) June 6 1765, 48 Zophar h April 8 1767, 
49 Solon 1). May 18 1769, and 50 Susana h Oct 5 
1774. 41 William had cli. 51 Shepherd, [who had 
ch. Isaac, Edwin and William] and 52 Hervey, who 
has s Dennis. 40 Timothy m Abigail Jagger, Nov 
8 1780, and had ch. 53 Apollos b Dec 22 1781, d 
1824, 54 Cephas b Oct 25 1783 d 1848, 55 Hiram 
b Nov 6 1787 d 1807, 56 Walter b Dec 18 1789 
and Nancy and Sophia b Dec 6 1792. These lived 
in Orange Co. N. Y. 53 Apollos m Mary Helme, 
and had ch. Martha P. b Sept 29 1806, Wm. 
Augustus b Sept 14 1860, Nathan H. b March 3 
1812, Eunice b June 11 1818, Apollos b March 25 
1824 d. 1852. 

11 David (1 1732 had ch. 57 Abraham b 1696 d 
1759, 58 Abigail, 59 Sarah, 60 Hannah and 61 Me- 
hetabel. 57 Abraham had ch. 62 David b Oct 6 
1722, «)3 Amy b Aug 24 1724, 64 Jonathan b May 
1 1727, 65 Elias b Feb 3 1730, 66 Hannah b Jan 
7 1732, 67 Stephen b April 13 1733 and 68 Lemuel. 
62 David had ch. 69 Mehetabel, 70 Caleb b 1765, 
71 Abraham, 72 David, 73 Daniel and 74 Amy. 
70 Caleb had ch. 75 Abraham, 76 Ruth and 77 
Augustus B., [who m Harriet Rogers and has ch. 
Harriet, Helen and Theodore A.] 75 Abraham niMary 
Woodrutf, and has ch. William, Mary, Silas, Charles 
and Jane. 72 David had ch. David and Jonathan. 
64 Jonathan, of Speonk, had ch. 78 David, who had 
ch. 79 Hiram and 80 Oliver. 79 Hiram, of Speonk, 
has ch. William D., John and Charles. 

67 Stephen M. D. had s 81 Stephen M. D., who 
liad ch. 82 Judge Hugh, and 83 Rev. Herman. 82 
30 



230 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Hugh had eh. James M., Isabel, Charles A., M. D, 
and E. Sidney. 

13 Jeremiah of B. Hampton, b 1666 d 1737, had 
w Ruth and ch. 84 Jeremiah, 85 Nathan, 86 Elijah, 
87 Experience, 88 Abioail and 89 Jerusha. 

84 Jeremiah had ch. 90 Paul, 91 Jeremiah, 92 
Matthew and 93 Stejdien. 90 Paul had ch. 94 
Paul, (who had s Watson) 95 Lemuel, (who had s 
Robert) 96 Sylvester and 97 Hudson. 97 Hudson 
had ch. 98 Erastus, 99 Robert, (who had ch. Rob- 
ert, Erastus and Jeffrey) and 100 Greoroe. 91 Jere- 
miah had ch. Jeremiah, Luther, Amos and Simeon. 
92 Matthew had ch. 101 Matthew, 102 Job, of Sag 
Harbor, 103 Isaac. 104 Levi, 105 Jacob an<l 106 
Samuel. 

102 Job had ch. 107 Eli])halet, (who had s Thomas) 
and 108 George. 

105 Jacob had s 109 Ha\Ties, who had s Benjamin. 

106 Samuel had ch. 110 Richard, (who has ch. 
Jesse, Leander, William, Erskine, Charles, Gabriel 
and Richard) 111 Albert, (who has ch. Samuel and 
Ashbury) 112 Lawrence, 113 Samuel, of Sag Har- 
bor, 114 Job, 115 Ledyard and 116 Philetus. 

93 Stephen had ch. 117 Stephen, (removed) 118 
Jonathan, 119 Jeremiah, (removed) and 120 Rogers, 
(who had ch. 121 Herman R. and Henry H.) 121 
Herman R. has son Henry and d, . 

85 Nathan d 1760, had w Charity and ch. 122 
Timothy b 1730, 123 Nathan and 124 Theophilus. 
122 Timothy had av Phebe and ch. 125 Sylvanus t* 
1755, 126 Charity b 1760, 127 James b 1757, (wh| 
had ch. Stephen, Richard and Jol» H.) 128 Sarah 1) 



FAMILY RECORDS. 231 

.1761, 129 Timothy b 1765, (who had ch. Hubbard, 
Bartlett and Benjamin) 130 William b 1766, 131 
Abigail b 1767, 132 Jesse and 133 David b 1770, 
and 134 Elisha b 1776, (who had d w of Kichard 
Rogers.) 125 Sylvanus iiad ch. 135 Elihu, (who 
had ch. Allen, James, Augustus, Edward William, 
and Samuel) 136 Phebe, 137 Catherine and 138 
Frederic, (who had son Albert.) 130 William had 
ch. 139 Oliver (who had ch. Oliver, Egbert and 
Charles C.) 140 Alvah, (who had ch. John and 
Henry) and 141 William. 132 Jesse had ch. Sam- 
uel, Cornelius, Isaac and Charles. 133 David had 
oh. Henry and Pierson. 

86 Elijah had ch. 142 Daniel, 143 Moses and 144 
Nathan. 142 Daniel had ch. 145 Grabriel, [who had 
s Noah] and 146 Moses. 17 Nathaniel m Anna d 
•of Josiah Stansbrough, Dec 15 1697, and had ch. 
147 Elishal b Sept 3 1699, 148 Recompense b Aug 
.19 1700, 149 Ezekiel b Nov 12 1703, 150 Ananias 
h Jan 10 1706, 151 Anna b July 29 1707, 152 
Eunice b March 31 1709, 153 Deborah b Oct 7 
1710, 154 Nathaniel b Dec 15 1713, 155 Phebe b 
May 31 1714, and 156 Moses b July 12 1716. 

One of these children [it is not known which] of 
17 Nathaniel, was the father of 157 Joshua and 158 
James. 157 Joshua had ch. 159 Ananias, and 160 
Joshua, [who had ch. Schuyler B. and Aje.] 159 
Ananias had ch. 161 Uriah, (who had ch. Eliza- 
beth, William and Edwin) 162 Eli P., (who had s 
Edwin P.) and 163 Mary w of Daniel Fordham. 
-158 James had s 164 Nathaniel, who had s Albert, 
of Cob. 



232 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

3 Isaac d about 1703, had w Mary and ch. 165 
Isaac I) 1665 d 1752, 166 Joseph, 167 Joshua b 
1675, 168 Thomas, 169 Samuel, 170 Mary w of — 
Post, and 171 Elizabeth w of — Howell. 

165 Isaac had w Phebe and ch. 172 Joseph, 173 
Jonah, 174 John, [who had son Dr. Isaac] 175 
Phebe, 176 Mary, 177 Job b I7l4 d 1750. 168 
Thomas of B. Hampton d about 1764, had s 178 
Ethan, who had ch. 179 Ethan 1) 1755 d 1827, 180 
Abraham and 181 Thomas. 179 Ethan had w Jane 
and ch. 182 Ethan, [who had s Thomas] 183 Jas- 
per, [who had s Abraham] 184 David, [who had s 
James] 185 James, [avIio had ch. Stephen, Jeremiah 
and Oliver] and 186 Luther. 

4 Daniel had ch. 187 Daniel b 1670 d 1734, and 
188 Richard. 

187 Daniel had w Amy and ch. 189 Daniel b 
1697 March 21. 190 Henry b. Feb 28 1700, 191 
Amy b Aug 17 1702, 192 Elias b May 16 1707, 193 
Jesse b Aug 5 1710, 194 Silas b Jan 17 1718. 189 
Daniel had ch. 195 Daniel b 1732, and 196 Ichabod 
b 1734. 195 Daniel had s 197 Daniel, who had s 
198 Daniel, who had w Louisa and ch. Mary w of 
Elbert Rose, Emma J. w Rev. Samuel Huntting, 
Daniel, William and Josephine. 190 Hemy had 
ch. 199 Jesse, 200 Fithian and 201 Henry. 199 
Jesse had ch. 202 Jesse, [who had ch. Lemuel, Da- 
vid and Abigail] and 203 Charles, who had ch. 204 
Henry, 205 Jesse and 206 Edward, [who has d 
Maria L.] 204 Henry has ch. Amanda, Charles H., 
Willman, Jesse and Mary. 194 Silas b 1718, had s 
Dr. Silas who removed to Lodi N. Y., and had sons 
Nicol and Jehiel. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 233 

ADDITKJNAL NOTES. 

39 Sylvanus moved to Orange Co, N. Y. 67 Dr. 
Ste]»hen, and his son 81 Dr. Stephen, both practiced 
medicine in Bridge Hampton. James M. gr. son of 
81 Dr. Stephen, m Mary d of Levi D. Wright M. 
D., [who settled in B. Hampton, from Middle Had- 
dam, Ct.] and has eh. Phebe E. b 1857, Levi b 
1860, and Hugh b 1864. Charles A., also a Phy- 
sician, died while acting as Assistant Surgeon in the 
U. S. Service, during the late Rebellion. Ed. Sid- 
ney also died in the same service. 

31 Philip was b 1760. He was in the army of 
the revolution where he heard the Declaration of 
Independence announced, and was a member of the 
last company which evacuated N. Y. City in the 
memorable retreat of the Am. Army, was after- 
w^ards discharged at White Plains, returned home ; 
but hearing that a company of British Dragoons 
were in the vicinity of his father's house, he, with 
some comrades, struck across the Island to Oyster 
Pond Pt., and took a boat across the sound in the 
night, entered the Connecticut River and found his 
way to Windsor, where he m Esther d, of Elisha 
Moore. He died in Windsor in 1846. He had s 
Henry b July 8 1784. These particulars concern- 
ing Philip are derived from Hist, of Windsor by 
Dr. Henry R. Stiles. 

HAND FAMILY. 

John Hand was one of the early settlers (»f South- 
ampton, his name being on the list of 1644. He re- 
moved with his son Stephen, to East Hampton, 



234 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

about the time of the settlement of that phice in 
1649. It is probable that he had also two other 
sons, Shamger and Benjamin. One Shamger who had 
s Shamger b March 27 1671, in 1699 living in Cai)e 
May Co. N. J., speaks of s Josiah of B. Hampton. 
Benjamin m Elizabeth Whittior Feb 27 1669, and 
had ch. Elizabeth b Jan 27 1672, Sarah b Sept 22 
1673, Abraham b Oct 2 1675, Benjamin b July 22 
1677, Richard b March 2 1679, Mary b March 24 
1680, Rachel b Jan. 23 1682, and Peter b Nov 1 
1683. Now comes a missing link of one generation, 
which the family can doubtless restore from papers 
inaccessible to the writer. One of the ch. of the 
older Benjamin above, is doubtless the grand father 
of three brothers, Abraham, Silas and Nathaniel. 
Of these three brothers, Abraham had ch, Abraham, 
(who had s Ovid, of Ovid N. Y.) and Eleazer, who 
had ch. Catherine and George, (who has ch. George 
and John of E. Hampton.) 

Nathaniel above had ch. Nathaniel, (who had ch. 
Marcus and Thomas) and Mulford who had s Charles, 
of Amagansett, who had ch. George, Nathaniel, 
Charles, and daughters. 

David Hand, of the same generation as the three 
brothers, Abraham, Silas and Nathaniel, had ch. 
David, (who had s Forrest) Josiah and Gideon, (who 
had s Theron.) 

John, Richard and Charles, of B. H., were sons of 
Hervey, who, with his brother Bartlett was son of 
Elias who was b 1770 and d 1842. 

HARRIS FAMILY. 
1 George Han-is, the first of this family, is first 



FAMILY nKconi>s. 23;> 

mentioned in the list of 1657. He lived very early 
in North Sea, where some of his descendants have 
ever since resided. He had ch. 2 (reorge, 3 Heurv 
and 4 Eunice. 3 Henry had cli. 5 John h' 1727 d 
1791, 6 Lydia, 7 Benjamin, 8 Sarah, 9 Henry, 10 
G-eortxe, 11 Daniel and 12 Mary. 5 John had s 13 
Stephen h 1759 d 1813, who had w Jane and ch. 
14 Apollos b 1788 d 1837, 15 Eleanor w of Charles 
Parsons, and 16 Luther who removed to Goshen 
N. Y. 14 Apollos had w Minerva and s Stephen, 
who m Harriet Brown and had ch. Arthur, Charles, 
Jane, William, Ellen and Everett. 9 Henry had s 
17 Henry, who had ch. 18 Henry b 1764 d 1851, 
and 19 Elias (who had s William H.) ' 18 Henry 
had w Phile and ch. 20 Hervey, (who had d Mary) 
and 21 Joseph R. who has w Harriet White and d 
Eloise w of James Post of N. Y. 11 Daniel had 
ch. 22 Daniel and 23 Thomas, (who removed to Sag 
Harbor). 22 Daniel had ch. 24 Albert, (who had 
ch. Benjamin, Edward and Greorge) and 25 George. 

HAYNE8 FAMILY. 

Benjamin Haynes or Haines, as it is generally 
written in the old Records, and still is by other 
branches of the family, first appears on record in 
1657, as a resident of North Sea. His will is found 
on record, dated in 1687. With exception of the 
descendants of 11 Stephen, all or nearly all the 
branches are resident of Bridge Hampton. 1 Ben- 
jamin d 1687 had w Johana, and ch. 2 Benjamin, 3 
Hannah, 4 James b 1673 d 1732, and 5 Samuel. 
2 Benjamin d 1714, and had w Lydia and ch. Ben- 



236 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

jamin, John, David, Jo8e]ib, Nathan, Hannah, 
Phebe, Lydia and Susana. 

4 James had 1st w Sarah and 2nd vv Temperance, 
and ch. 6 Deac. James b 1702 d 1779, 7 Sarah, 8 
Edith, 9 Phebe, 10 Daniel and 11 Stephen 1» 1704. 
6 Deac. James had w Martha and ch. 12 David, 13 
Sarah, 14 James, (who had s Jared of New Jersey) 
15 Daniel of Ct., 16 Elizabeth and 17 Samuel. 12 
David had ch. 18 Deac. Jeremiah, (who has sons 
William and Jeremiah) 19 David, 20 Stephen, who 
removed, and 21 Austin of Southold. 19 David 
had s 22 Stephen, who has sons Samuel and Lucius. 
15 Daniel had s Lemuel of B. Hampton b 1767 d 
1856, who had sons Howell and William of N. J. 

17 Samuel b 1794, had w Sarah and s 23 Job, 
who had ch. 24 James L. and 25 William. 24 
James L. had ch. George and Theodore. 11 Stephen 
removed to Newark N. J., had w Esther and ch. 26 
Stephen b 1733, 27 Phebe b 1741, and 28 Mary b 
1747. 26 Stephen had w Joana and ch. 29 Job b 
1756, 30 Stephen b 1760, 31 Joana, 32 Elias 1) 
1766, and 33 Daniel b 1773. 29 Job had w Mar- 
garet and ch. Margaret, Mary, Gen. Ezekiel of Ohio, 
and Col. Elias of Ohio also. 32 Elias had w Sarah 
and 5 Daniel of Hamburg N. J., [Judge and Ex- 
Governor of N. J.] who had ch. Rev. Alanson. Capt. 
Thomas, Sarah and Henrietta. 

5 Samuel d 1732, had ch. Silas, John, Isaiah, 
Mary, Ruth and Samuel. 

HEDGES FAMILY. 

On the list of 1 644 a})pears the name of .a Hedges 
— but the name is now indistinct — it resembles 



FAMILY RECORDS. • 237 

" Will." or may be " Tristmra," the latter of which is 
oiiee found on record very early. But the name 
probably is William, since he is the only Hedges of 
that period of whom we know anything. He was one 
of the first settlers of East Hampton in 1649, and was 
made freeman at Boston May 1 4, 1634. The most of the 
following record was obtained from Hun. H. P. Hedges 
i)f B. Hampton, and Dr. John C. Hedges of E. Hamp- 
ton. 1 William d 1674, had ch. 2 Stephen b 1634 d 
1734 and 3 Isaac. 2 Stephen had children 5 Wil- 
liam b 1679 d 1768, 4 Daniel b 1677 d 1734, and 6 
.Fohn b — d about 1737. 4 Daniel had ch, 7 Dan- 
iel b 1709 d 1760 and 8 Col. Jonathan b 1725 d 
1804. 7 Daniel had ch. 9 Deac. David b 1744 d 
1817, 10 Stephen and 11 Daniel. 9 Deac. David 
had w Phebe and ch. 12 Zephaniah b 1768 d 
1847, 13 David, 14 Jesse and 15 Wilkes. 12 
Zephaniah had ch. 16 Hon. Henry P. [who has ch. 
Samuel 0., Edwin and William] 17 Jeremiah [who 
has ch. John and Marcus] 18 T. Sanford, [who has 
s Henry R.] and 19 Edwin, [who has ch. Hervey T. 
and Maria. 13 David had ch. 20 Col. Hervey (who 
has ch. Henry T. and Mary) and 21 David (who has 
ch. Cassander and Dr. David A. 14 Jesse had ch. 

22 Albert of Sag Harbor (who has s George) and 

23 Charles of Sag Harbor, (who has s Charles.) 
15 Wilkes had ch. 24 Capt. William of E. Hampton, 
(who had ch. James and William) 25 John Wilkes, 
(who has son John W.) and 26 Huntting. 10 Ste- 
phen had ch. 27 Jared(who had ch. Robert, John, Jared 
and Charles) and28 Stephen bl765dl826, who had s 
Levi. 11 Daniel had ch. Daniel. Nathaniel of Harttord 

32 



238 HISTORY OF SODTHAMPTOK. 

Ot., Caleb and Abraham. 5 William had oh. 29 
Stephen h 1724 d 1804, 30 William, 31. Ezekiel, 
[who moved to Patchogue] and 32 Jeremiah, [who 
had s David.] 29 Stephen had s 33 Capt. David 
}) 1762 d 1846, who had s 34 Deac. Stephen. 34 
Stephen had ch. 35 William, 36 Stephen L., [who 
has ch. Fanny G., Lawrence and William] 37 
George and 38 Nathan. 

30 William had ch. 39 William b 1737 d 1815, 
and 40 Thomas. 39 William had ch. 41 William 
of Lansingburg N. Y., 42 Col. David [who had s 
Dr. John C.,] and 43 John. 

6 John had ch. 44 John b 1700 d 1786, 45 Lem- 
uel of N. Jersey, and 46 Stephen b 1703 d 1760. 
44 John had ch. 47 Daniel, 48 Mary Isaacs and 49 
Ruth Howell. 47 Daniel had ch. 50 Stephen, [who 
moved away] 51 John who had s John D. and 52 
Josiah. 

45 Lemuel had ch. 53 Lemuel, [who had ch. 
James, Timothy, Elias and Samuel] and 54 Jon- 
athan, who had s Joseph 0. 

4b Stephen had ch. 55 Timothy, 5b Matthew, 
57 Elias and 58 Nathaniel. 55 Timothy had s 59 
Jeremiah, who had s Capt. Jeremiah of Sag Har- 
bor. 56 Matthew had ch. Stephen, [who moved to 
N. Y.] Paul, [who moved to Ohio] Matthew, [who 
moved west] Timothy, [who had d Catherine of E. 
H.] Samuel, [who moved to Washington Co. N. Y.] 
and Esther. 

3 Isaac had ch. 60 Isaac, and 61 Samuel, who 
had s 62 Samuel. 62 Samuel had ch. 63 Jonathan 
b 1763, and 64 Benjamin. 63 Jonathan had ch. 65 



FAMILY 11P.(!{)RDS. 239 

Jonathan b 1730, [who had ch. Jonathan and 
Phineas, both physicians, of Newburg N. Y.] and 
66 Keuben, [who had ch. Dr. George, Robert, Hetty, 
Hannah and Mary.] 6'4 Benjamin had s 67 Philip, 
who had s Benjamin of Amagansett. 

In 1711 Isaac had a s Gideon baptized. 

9 Deac. David Hedges was for many years mem- 
ber of the New York Legislature, and one of the 
members of a convention to ratify the constitution 
of the U. S. He was a man of more than ordinary 
intellectual power. 

HERRICK FAMILY. 

James Herrick came here between 1653 and 1657. 
The genealogy of this family is given in a Register 
already in print and need not be repeated, except 
such portions as refer to the Southampton family. 

Their coat of arms is : Argent a fesse verre or 
and gules, crest — on a wreath of their colors a Bull's 
liead ar-gent issuing out of a laurel garland, muzzle, 
ears and horns tipped sable. Motto — virtus onmia 
nobilitat. 

1 James d 1687, had ch. 2 William b 1654 d 
1708, 3 James and 4 Thomas. 2 William had ch. 
5 Stephen, 6 James, and 7 Nathan b 1700 d 1784. 
5 Stephen had s 8 George, who had s 9 William, 
who had ch. 10 William P. and 11 Austin. 10 
William P. had w Esther and ch. William, Abigail 
and Cephas. 11 Austin had w Mary and ch. Rev. 
Samuel E. and Mary A. 6 James had s 12 Micaiah, 
who had ch. 13 Micaiah and 14 Edward. 13 Micaiah 
had w Nancv Rose and ch. 15 James, 16 George, 



240 * HISTORY OF SOTTHAMl'TON. 

[who has H James] Elizabetli, Mary, w of J.siiac P. 
Foster, and Cornelia w of Wm, Huntting. 7 Na- 
than had s 17 Henry b 1737, who had s 18 Clau- 
dius of NeAv Haven. 18 Claudius had ch. 19 Dr. 
John P. of Southampton, 20 Edward C. of New- 
Haven, and Kev. Henry, who has ch. Charles and 
others. 19 Dr. John P. m Esther Foster and had 
eh. Louisa P., Dr. John C. and Henry. 

HILDRETH FAMILY. 

1 Thomas Hildreth is first mentioned in Oct, 
1643, and might have come a little earlier. In a 
deed of settlement between Hannah his wid. in 
1657, and his oldest s Joseph, several young children 
are alluded to, but their names are not given. Dr. 
Shadrach was a surgeon in the American army of 
the Revolution, and died in the service. 

1 Thomas had ch. 2 Joseph, 3 Hannah. 4 James, 
and probably 5 Peter. 2 Joseph had ch. 6 Joseph 
b July 27 1679, 7 Nathan b March 17 1684-5 d 
1777, 8 Benjamin b Sept 22 1681, 9 Ephraim b 
1695 d 1777, 10 Daniel, 11 Jonathan and 12 Isaac. 
7 Nathan had ch. 13 John, 14 Daniel, 15 Mannas- 
seh, 16 Joseph and 17 Benjamin. 16 Joseph had s 
18 Daniel, who had ch. 19 Daniel, 20 Shadrach, 21 
Joseph, 22 Samuel, 23 Nathan and 24 Philip. 19 
Daniel had ch. 25 Shadrach, (w^ho had ch. Nathan 
and Charles) and 26 Daniel. 21 Joseph had ch. 

27 Joseph, (who had ch. Lewis, Albert and Elmira) 

28 John and 29 Daniel. 

12 Isaac had s 30 John, who had ch. 31 Isaac, 32 
Luther, 33 John and 34 Septimus. 31 Isaac had 



FAMILY RECORDS. 241 

ch. 35 Matthew, (who has ch. JSamuel, Abraham, 
Egbert and Carolme w (^f Henry E. Huntting) 36 
Shadrach, 37 Luther, 38 Isaac, 39 John and 40 
Lester, (who has 8 Isaac.) 32 Luthei- had s. 41 
Samuel, of Sag Harbor, (who has s Samuel and 
others. 33 John had ch. 42 Nathan, (who has ch. 
Albert and John) 43 Henry and 44 Albert. 

4 James had s 45 James, who d about 1720, 
had w Deborah and ch. 46 Noah, 47 Deborah, 48 
Hannah, 49 Sarah, 50 David and 51 Joshua. 51 
Joshua had w Ann and ch. 52 James, 53 Daniel 
and 54 Ann. 52 James died 1778 had w Phebe and 
ch, 55 Noah, 56 David, 57 James, 58 Joshua, (who 
had s Patrick G. of N. Y.) and 59 Levi. 59 Levi 
had ch. Lawrence and James, M. D., (who had ch. 
Eliza, James and Laura.) 5 Peter had s 60 Peter 
who had ch. 61 Peter and 62 David. 61 Peter had 
s 63 Jonathan, who had ch. 64 .1. Halsey, and 65 
Alfred, [who had ch. Charles, G-eorge and Wallace). 

H(1WELL FAMILY. 

Edward Howell, the first of this name, was made 
freeman at Boston, March 14, 1639. He was one 
of the eight original undertakers, and came here in 
1640. The numerous lamilies who have descended 
from him, like many others indeed, are scattered 
through almost every state in the Union. In 1638, 
500 acres of land were allotted to him in Lynn. It 
is almost incredible, but there is in this and almost 
every family on the east end of Long Island, a tra- 
dition that in early times three brothers "came 
t over," one of whom invariablv settled on Long Is- 
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242 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

land, one as invariably in New Jersey, and the other 
" somewhere else." And this, without the least his- 
torical evidence to support it is told to the enquirer, 
ad nauseum ; except in one instance, where the tra- 
dition is varied to relate that seven brothers came 
over, each seven feet hi^h, which is full as probable. 
The arms of this family are : Gules, triple- towered. 
Argent. Crest used by some branches. Out of a 
ducal crown or, a rose argent stalked and leaved 
vert between two wings, endorsed of the last. Motto : 
Tenax propositi. ' , 
^' 1 Edward b about 1600 d 1655, had w Eleanor 
and ch. 2 Major John b 1625 d 1696, 3 Edward, 4 
Richard, 5 Arthur and 6 Edmund. 2 Uohn had w 
Susana and ch. 7 John b Nov 28 1648 d 1692, 8 
Edward b March 22 1649-50, 9 Col. Matthew b 
Nov. 8 1651, 10 Capt. Abraham b Jan 22 1653, 11 
Ephraim b Jan 1 1655, 12 Susana b July 15 1658, 
13 Hannah b Oct 28 1660, 14 Dr. Theophilus b 
Dec 18 1662, 15 Nathanieiyb Aug 29 1664, 16 
Prudence b Dec 27 1666, and 17 Abigail b July 5 
1670. 7 John had w Martha and ch. 18 Mehetabel 
b March 12 1674, 19 John b July 11 1676, 20 
Phebe b April 17 1678, 21 Susana b Nov 20 1680, 
22 Stephen b May 10 1683, 23 Henry b March 18 
1684-5, (who removed to Boston.) 24 Elizabeth b 
Feb 4 1686-7, and 25 Sybil b Aug 9 1691. 
-^ 19 John d 1747, had w Joana and ch. 26 Jc: : 
b 1711 d 1791, and 27 Ebenezer. 26 John had «■ 
Desire and ch. 28 John b April 20 1743, 29 Henr 
Jan. 22 1745, 30 Stephen b Nov 23 1746, 31 Jar . 
and 32 Nathan. 28 John m Mehetabel Jessup a i 



FAMILY RECORDS. 243 

had ch. 33 John b about 1765 d 1834, 34 Meheta- 
bel, 35 Lucretia, 36 Matilda White, 37 Dolly, 38 
Betsey, 39 Prudence, 40 Lolsa and 41 Charles. 33 
John m Mary Saltmarsh and had ch. John, Horace, 
Orson, Frederic, (who has son William F.) Philo, 
Dr. Thomas and William. 

8 Edward had s 42 Edward of B. Hampton b 
1684 d 1772, who had w Abiijail and ch. 43 Han- 
nah b 1714, 44 Mehetabel b 1716, 45 Abigail b 
1718, 46 Sarah b 1720, 47 Deborah b 1723, 48 Dan- 
iel and 49 Ezekiel b 1725, 50 Gideon b 1728, 51 
Jemima b 1732, (wife of — Gardiner) and 52 Mar- 
tha b 1733. 48 Daniel had ch. 53 Edward b 1756 
d 1834, 54 Simon, [wiio had s Daniel of Sag Har- 
bor] and 55 Pric)\ 53 Edward had s Daniel of 
Hadlyme Ct., who had ch. George and Joseph E. 
49 Ezekiel d 1802, had son 56 Stepheji of B. Hamj)- 
ton, who had s Hervey, who has s Edward. 

9 Col Matthew d 1706, m Mary Halsey Nov 8 
1677 and had ch. 57 Eunice b Aug 18 1678, 58 Na- 
than b Dec 24 1681, 59 Israel b April 17 1686, 60 
Ezekiel b Jan 2 1 1689 and 61 Jerusha. 59 Israel 
m Mary Rogers Nov 22 1711 and had ch. 62 Matthew 
b Aug 23 1712, 63 Eunice b Dec. 11 1713, and 64 
Israel 1. March 14 1716. 

10 Capt. Abraham d 1712 m 1st w Abigail White 
Oct. 19 1682, and 2d w Ann James Oct 2 1690, and 
had ch. 65 Abraham b July 30 1683 d 1750, 66 
Charles b March 19 1686, 67 Philip b Sept 25 1691, 
and 68 Ebenezer b June 12 1693. 65 Abraham 
had w Mary and ch. David and Charles. 

11 Ephraim m Hannah Cow Nov 10 1<)84, and 



244 lllSTOKY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

had ch. Ephiaiiii b Oct U) 1685, and Samuel. 
14 Dr. Theopliilus d 1739, had w Abigail and ch. 
69 Theoi)hihis b 1697, 7a Elihii, 71 Prudence and 
72 Deborah. 70 Elihu had ch. 73 Abigail, 74 Han- 
nah, 75 Dr. Theophihis b 1738 d 1775, and 76 
Abraham. 76 Abraham had ch. 77 Elihu b 1764 
d 1831, and 78 Theophilus. 77 Elihu had ch. Na- 
than, Septimuis, and Theophilus. 

15 Nathaniel had w Hannah and ch. Neheraiaiu 
Eunice, Henry and Nathaniel, who had s Edward. 

3 Edward d 1699, had w Mary and ch. 79 Joseph, 
80 Jonathan, 81 Samuel, 82 Jonah, 83 Edward, 84 
Benjamin, 85 Thomas, 86 Mary, 87 Deborah Top- 
ping, 88 Phebe Halsey and 89 Sarah w Olmdiah 
Rogers. 79 Joseph b about 1660, m Lydia d of 
Deac. Samuel Stocking of Middle town Ct., [she was 
b Jan 20 1662-3] and had ch. 90 Zebulon b 1694 d 
1761, and 91 James. 90 Zebulon had w Amy and 
ch. 92 Silas b May 20 1719, 93 Zebulon b March 3 
1721, d 1811 and 94 Mark. 93 Zebulon had w 
Joana and ch. 95 Phebe b March 21 1743, w of 
Wm. Paine of Boston, 96 Silas, of Portland, Me., 
b July 4 1745, 97 Joana w of Stephen Herrick b 
Jan. 30, 1747 98 Peter b Dec. 9 1749 99 Mary w 
of Silas Cooper, b May 11 1752, 100 Jane w of 
George Mackie b Feb 24 1754, 101 Dr George b 
June 27 1757, 102 Susana w of John Cooiw^- b April 
20 1759, and 103 Capt. Oliver 1) Feb 1 1764 d 1805. 
103 Oliver had w Mehetabel d of Stephen Ptogers 
m Nov 25 1792, and ch. 104 George b Aug 15, 

1793, 105 Mary w of Schuyler B. Halsey b Oct. 20 

1794, 106 Peter b Aug 27 1797, 107 William R. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 245 

b Aug 24 1799, 108 Charles b Sept 9 1801 and 109 
Nancy b Feb 9 1804. 104 George has w Ursula 
Mulford and ch. George Henry, John W., Elizabeth 
and Harriet. 107 William R. had 1st w Clarissa 
Sayre, and 2d av Caroline Osborn and ch. Caroline 
w of Thos. J. Glover, Clara, Egbert, Susan, Mary 
and William, 108 Charles has w Mary d of Mat- 
thew Rogers and ch. Rev. George R., Edward 0., 
Nancy R., John Henry, Emily and Juliet, and 
Henrietta. 

80 Jonathan had ch. 110 Jonathan, 111 Josiah, 
112 David, 113 Isaac and 114 Jeremiah. 114 Jere- 
miah had ch. 115 Jeremiah, 116 Jonathan, 117 
Ezekiel and 1 18 David. 115 Jeremiah had ch. 119 
Caleb, [who went to N. Jersey] and 120 Wil- 
liam of Hog Neck. 120 W^illiam had ch. 121 Caleb, , 
[who had s James L.] 122 Sylvester and 123 George. 
82 Jonah had ch. 124 Jonah, 125 Ezra and 126 
Samuel. 124 Jonah had ch. 127 Ebenezer and 128 
Jonah, (who had ch. Isaac, Jonah, Gilbert and 
Ruth w of George White.] 127 Ebenezer had ch. 
129 Ebenezer, 130 Samuel, 131 Austin, [who had s 
George P. of Penn.] and 132 William. 129 Ebenezer 
had ch. 133 Elias, (who has s Eugene) 134 James, 
(who has ch. Elizabeth, Oscar, Charles and George 
R.) 135 Peter, 136 Edward, 137 Helen and 138 
Jane. 126 Samuel b 1708 had w Experience and 
ch. 139 Samuel b 1740 d 1820, 140 Jeremiah b 
1748. 141 Benjamin and 142 Walter. 139 Samuel 
had w Phebe and ch. 143 William b 1771 d 1831, 
and 144 Sylvanus of Sag Harbor, (who had ch. 
Svlvanus and Samuel. 143 William had ch. 145 
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24^ JIISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Edward of B. Hampton and 146 William F. b 
1805 d 1842, who had ch. Samuel, Charles W. 
and Levi. 142 Walter had ch. 147 Walter, (who 
had s Matthew of N. Y. City,) and 148 Samuel, who 
had ch. Rev. Samuel N. and William. 85 Thomas 
d 1726 had w Sarah and ch. Leah, Rachel, Joshua, 
Kesiah, Micah, Sybil and Eliphus. 
^ 4 Richard had w Elizabeth and ch. 149 Richard, 
(who had ch. Edward, Christopher, Arthur and 
Obadiah) 150 Lieut. Hezekiah b 1677 d 1744, 151 
Edward, 152 Edmund, 153 .losiah b 1675 d 1752, 
154 Christopher, 155 David and 156 Obadiah. 150 
Lieut. Hezekiah m Phebe d of Thos. Halsey, Sept 
10 1702 and has ch. 157 Hezekiah b May 6 1709, 
158 Phebe b .Jan 11 1705, 159 Experience b Aug 
28 1706, and 160 Jedediah b June 28 1713. 157 
Hezekiah m Susana d of Job Say re 1735, and had 
ch. 161 Phebe b June 6 1737, 162 Jane b April 20, 
1739, 163 Hezekiah b Sept 3 1741, and 164 Charles. 
163 Hezekiah moved to Orange Co. N. Y. and had 
ch. 165 Hezekiah b 17(i8, and 166 Nathaniel. 165 
Hezekiah had ch. 167 Hezekiah, 168 Nathaniel, 169 
Matthew, (who has ch Nathaniel W. and Charles,) 
170 John Woodhull, (who has s William, Selah 
and Theodore) 171 Gabriel, (who has s Edward D. 
and John J.) 172 Simeon and 173 Andrew, (who 
has s Timothy S.) 166 Nathaniel had ch. Alexan- 
der, Porter, Thomas and Nathaniel W. 164 Charles 
moved to Orange Co. N. Y., and ch. 174 Selah, 175 
Henry, (who had s William and Andrew,) 176 
Charles and 177 Edmund, [who had s Charles, James 
and Jose}>li.] — — 



FAMILY RKCORDS. 247 

160 Jedediali had ch. 178 EHhh, 179 Ebenezer 
and 180 Edward. 178 Elias moved to Orange Co. 
N. Y., and had ch. 181 Caleb b 1778 d 1825, [who 
had s Harvey] 182 Hezekiah and 183 David. 

153 Josiah had w Mary and ch. 184 Abuer, b 
June 22, 1699, 185 Mary, 186 Phebe, 187 Esther, 
188 Josiah b 1709 d 1775, 189 Elias and 190 Ann. 
184 Abner had ch. 191 David, b Feb 10 1740, 192 
Phineas b Nov 5 1742, 193 Eunice b March 20 1744, 
194 Mary b Jan 15 1746, 195 Stephen b Aug 12 
1749 and 196 Mehetabel b May 24 1751. 192 
Phineas moved to Chester, Morris Co. N. J., where 
he had sons Sylvanus, Harvey, Hiram, Aaron and 
Richard, who had s Benjamin A. 

188 Josiah had ch. 197 Capt. Josiah b 1738 d 
1808, 198 John and 199 Elisha, [who was b 1704 d 
1777, and had w Mary.] 197 Capt. Josiah had w 
Phebe and ch. 200 Josiah P. of Quoque, 201 Hamp- 
ton, 202 Elisha, 203 William and 204 Daniel. 200 
Josiah P. had ch. 205 John, [who has ch. Bertha, 
John, Josia and Lydia] and 206 Hampton. 201 
Hampton had s Benjamin H. of Brooklyn. 202 
Elisha had d Sarah w of Erastus Foster, 203 Wil- 
liam had s John of Bellport. 

198 John had s 207 Mitchell, who had s 208 
Charles of West Hampton, who has ch. Fletcher, 
Mortimer, Gertrude and Clara M. 

155 David had ch. 209 David b 1715 d 1795, and 
210 Silas. 209 David had w Phebe and ch. 211 
David, 212 Stephen, 213 Abraham and 214 Mat- 
thew b 1756 d 1836. 211 David had ch. 215 David, 
216 Charles b 1766 d 1822, 217 Silas and 218 Paul. 



248 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

216 Charles of Littleworth, had ch. 2 19 Henry, 
220 John, [who has d Sarah E.] 221 Lewis, 222 
Charles and 223 David, [who has h George.] 

212 Stephen had ch. 224 David, [who had s Mat- 
thew] 225 Lewis, of Sag Harlxir, and 226 Silas, 
who had eh. Nathan P., Augustus and Gilbert, all 
of Sag Harbor. 

156 Obadiah had s 227 Obadiah, who had ch. 228 
Obadiah, 229 Richard, 230 Ryall, 231 James and 
232 SylvanuH, (who had eh. Ucal of Ovid, N. Y., 
and Sylvanus.J 228 Obadiah b 1726 d 1793, had 
eh. 233 Obadiah, [who had ch. Lewis of Illinois, 
Daniel and Henry] 234 Daniel and 235 Henry. 5 
Arthur b about 1632, d 1680 had w Hannah and ch. 
236 Arthur b 1661 d 1683, 237 Abiah b Oct 22 
1666, 238 Martha b Sept 24 1668, 239 Eleanor b 
Sept 1 1670, 240 Thomason b May 22 1672, 241 
Elisha b Sei)t 18 1674, 242 Lemuel b July 31 1677, 
243 Penelope, b Dec 19 1679, and 244 Hannah b 
Nov. 7, 1684. 241 Elisha d 1750, had w Damaris 
and ch. 245 Arthur, 246 Elisha, 247 Lemuel, [who 
had 8 Moses] 248 Jesse and 249 Philip. 245 Arthur 
had ch. 250 Elias, 251 Silas, 252 Lemuel, 253 Ar- 
thur and 254 Frederic. 252 Lemuel had eh. 255 
Caleb and 256 Moses. 255 Caleb had s B. Franklin, ^ 
who had son Henry of B. Hampton. 242 Lemuel 
d 1772, had s 257 Lemuel, who had s 258 Henry, 
who had ch. 259 David, [who had s Col. Levi b 
1782 d 1863] 260 Renry, (whose sons removed to 
N. J.,) and 261 Levi. 

6 Edmund m Sarah d of Thomas Sayre, and had 
d Elizabeth b Oct 10 1669. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 25^ 

ADDITIONAL NOTKS. 

59 Israel and 60 Ezekiel removed to Moriches. 
Israel d about 1740, w Abigail. 53 Edward removed 
to East Haddam Ct., where his descendants now 
reside. The relative ages of tlie sons of 4 Richard 
are unknown, though there is reason to think they 
are in the following order : Richard, David, Josiah, 
Hezekiah, Edward, Obadiah, Christopher, Edmund. 

Another family of Howell, in Southold, are de- 
scended from Richard Howell a son of a widow 
Howell, of England, who m Peter Hallock and came 
hither and settled in Southold in 1640. 

140 Jeremiah moved to Troy, Morris Co., N. J., 
and thence to Persipany. He died 1846, ae 98. He 
had ch. Burnett, Jared, Abraham, Samuel and Mary. 
Jared had d who m Rev Mr. Stiles, of Deckertown, 
Sussex Co., N. J., 1742. 65 Abraham H. wills to 
2nd vv Patience, ch. John, Dorothy and Abigail, 
and gr. sons David, Silas and Charles. Will proved 
1750. 

5 Arthur m 1st Elizabeth d of Lyon Gardiner of 
Gardiner's Island, she being the first child of Eng- 
lish parentage born in the State of New York. Ar- 
thur lived in Bridge Hampton, as do also his descend- 
ants. 

On the tombstone of 65 Abraham, who died in 
Sagg, is found the following curious verse : 

'• Suddeo & awfuU was ye stroke 
By which he was Removed 
Unto the full Fruition of 
The God he served and loved." 

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230 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

V HUNTTING FAMILY. 

This family in Southampton are descended from 
the Huntting's of East Hampton. " John Hunt- 
ting the first of the name who came to this country, 
resided while in England, between the Counties of 
Sutiblk and Norfolk, and had a brother who was a 
minister. He came to this country in Aug. or Sept. 
1638, and when the Rev. John Allen was ordained 
as minister of the Gospel in Dedham, Mass., John 
Huntting was at the same time ordained a Ruling 
Elder of the Church." (From address of H. P. 
Hedges.) His wife's name was Severn or Sea Born. 
He died in 1692. Rev. Nathaniel was the first of 
the name in East Hampton, and the pastorate of 
this able and learned man was extended through 
fifty years of great usefulness. 

The coat of arms, aw near as I can judge from the 
blazon, is as follows : Argent a chevron tenne and 
azure bearing three bucks' heads cabossed or, between 
three talbots passant proper. Crest a talbot sejant 
tenne issuing from a wreath or and azure — holding a 
bucks' head cabossed oi-. Given to Hunt on of East 
Knoyle, Co. of Wilts. 

1 Elder John d 1682, had ch. 2 John, 3 Jonathan, 
b 1640, and 4 Matthew b 1648. 2 John had ch. 5 
John b May 30 1672, 6 Thomas b March 24 1674, 
7 Rev. Nathaniel b Nov 15 1675, 8 Esther b Nov. 
19 1677, 9 Rebecca b Jan 14 1679, 10 Samuel b 
March 14 1681, 11 Elizabeth b Feb 2 1683, 12 
Ebenezer b Jan 1 1684, 13 Stephen b May 14 1688, 
and 14 Jonathan b Jan 27 1690. 7 Rev. Nathaniel 
d 1753 m Mary Green of Boston, and had ch. 15 



FAMILY RECORDS. 251 

Nathaniel b Aug 1702, 16 Edward b Feb 1704, 17 
Mary b May 1706, 18 John b Sept 1707, 19 Samuel 
of Southampton b April 1710 d 1773, 20 Joseph b 
March 1711, 2 1 Mary b Sept 1713, 22 Jonathan b 
Oct 1714, and 23 Elizabeth b Oct 1718. 19 Samuel 
had w Zerviah, and s 24 Col. Benjamin 1) 1754 d 
1807, who had w Mehetabel and ch. 25 Samuel, 26 
Benjamin, 27 Deac. Edward b 1800 d 1856, 28 
Mary w of Luther D. Cook, 29 Gilbert, 30 William, 
and 31 Henry, 27 Deac. Edward had 1st w Har- 
riet d of Thomas Sayre and had ch. 32 Rev. Samuel, 
33 James R., 34 Henry E., 35 Sarah N., (w Rev. 
Charles B. Ball, and after his death, of Mr. Bart- 
lett, of Lee, Mass.) 36 William J. and 37 Gilbert 
C. Deac, Edward had 2nd w Phebe and s Charles. 
32 Rev. Samuel m Emma d of Daniel Halsey and 
had 8 Samuel. 33 James R. m Martha d of John 
White, and has d Martha J. 34 Henry E. m Caro- 
line Hildreth Foster, and has ch. Mary and Adelaide. 
37 Gilbert C, m Annetta d of Halsey Foster, and 
has s Edward, 29 Gilbert had ch. Bessie, Mary, 
Harriet, Gilbert and Robert V. 30 William had 
1st w Ann Foster, and 2nd w Cornelia Herrick, and 
ch. William F., Benjamin, Hannah, Nancy and 
Edward, 31 Henry had ch, Cornelius, Samuel K., 
and Phedora. 

.lAGGPiR FAMILY. 
1 John Jagger settled here, a young man, some- 
time between 1649 and 1653, Nothing could be 
ascertained of his moveraentp prior to his appear- 
ance in Southampton. He had ch. 2 John, 3 Sarah 
b July 21 1669, and 4 Jeremiah. 2 John had w 



252 uisTORy of southamptox. 

Hannah and ch. 5 John, 6 Sarah, 7 Elizabetli, 8 
Susana, 9 Jonathan, 10 Benjamin and 11 Samuel b 
1726 d 1785. 5 John had son 12 Nathaniel, who 
had ch. 13 Nathaniel, (who had s Nathaniel) and 
14 David. 14 David had ch. 15 David, (who had 
ch. Eliza w of John Burnett and Herman) 16 
Stephen, 17 Hervey, 18 Daniel, and 19 Franklin, 
(who has ch. David and oth( rs.) 9 Jonathan had w 
Bethia and 20 MattheT\', 21 Stephen and 22 Ebenezer. 
21 Stephen had ch. 23 Deac. Enoch, 24 David and 
25 Jonathan. 23 Deac. Enoch had by 1st w Hetty 
Fanning, ch. 26 Stephen, 27 Enoch F., 28 Hannah, 
29 Betsey and 30 Harriet, and by 2nd w Abigail 
Post, ch. 31 James, 32 Ann, 33 Hetty, 34 Daniel, 
35 William, 36 Mary, 37 Phebe and 38 Ezra. 34 
Daniel had ch. Isabella w of Daniel Cook, Mary E.. 
Elizabeth F., Hattie J., Miriam W., Edith and 
Enoch M. 24 David had s William now living in 
Riverhead. 25 Jonathan had ch. Cephas and Oliver, 
who has s Seth R. of West Hampton. 22 Ebenezer 
had ch. 39 Ebenezer b 1776 d 1849, and 40 Lewis. 
39 Ebenezer had ch. 41 Lewis, (who has s Oscar)^ 
and William. 40 Lewis had s Albert, who has ch. 
Walter, Anna, Clara, Harriet and Mary. 

11 Samuel had w Deborah and s James b 1740 d 
1833, who had w Jane and s Samuel b 1775 d 1845, 
who had s Kev'd Hampton, who has ch. Rosa w of 

Dr. Edward R. Post, Elliot and . 4 Jeremiah 

had ch. 42 William, 43 Jeremiah b 1690 d 1736, 44 
John, 45 Nathan, and 46 Daniel. 42 William had 
ch. 47 Jefemiah and 48 Jehiel, who had ch. William, 
Walter, Augustus and Charles) 47 Jeremiah had d 



FAMTT.y UF.CORDS. 253 

Clara, who m and had d Clara vv of W. T. Jones. 
4.') Nathan had s Jeremiah, who had « Jeremiah. 
Samuel above b 1775 had, besides Rev. 8. Hampton, 
eh. Jane w of Sylvanus White, Mary w of Austin 
HeiTick, Phebe w of Jeremiah Squires, Maria w of 
Jesse Terry and Deborah. 

•lENNINGS FAMILY. 

John Jennings, the first of this name, a[)pear.s 
first on the list of 1657. He was then a young 
man, or else, possibly, he came with an adult son 
John. He was from Hartford, Ct., and settled in 
North Sea. Assuming that only one John came 
here, and he a young man, the genealogy is as fol- 
lows, though it may appear irregular, in the num- 
ber of generations i)f the diiierent branches, yet 
snch irregularity exists in fact arising from early 
marriages in one branch an<i late ones in another : 

I .lohn had ch. 2 William and 3 Samuel. 2 Wil- 
liam d 1746 and had w Mary and ch. 4 John, 5 Wil- 
liam, 6 Thomas b 1701 d 1768, [who had w Sybil 
but no ch.] and 7 Mary. 4 John d 1759, had w 
Elizabeth and (;h. 8 John, 9 Anne, 10 Elizabeth, 

II Zebulon, 12 Naomi, 13 Sarah, 14 Phebe, 15 Abi- 
gail, and 16 Stephen. 11 Zebulon had s George 
who had ch. Lewis and Julia. 5 William had ch. 
17 Sylvanus, 18 Elias and 19 Israel. 17 Sylvanus 
had ch. 20 William b 1764 d 1845, 21 Nicholas b 
1766 d 1837, and 22 Sylvanus, [who had son David 
of Sag Harbor.] 20 William had w Naomi and 8 
Paul, who had s Jared, who has ch. Kate, Gilbert 
and Edson. 18 Elias had ch. 23 Elias b 1780 d 

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254 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

1849, 24 Purple and 25 Webb, [who removed] 23 
Elias had ch. 26 Wickham, [who has ch, Ellen, 
Lawrence, Kate, Abbie, Albert and Emma] 27 
Elias, 28 Andrew and 29 Albert. 

3 Samuel d 1760, had ch. 30 Samuel and 31 
Jesse. 30 Samuel d 1782, had w Rachel and ch. 
32 Samuel b 1747 d 1827, 33 James b 1748 d 1822, 
34 Joshua, 35 Caleb of New Jersey, 36 Silas, 37 
Ananias and 38 Phebe. 33 James had w Sarah and 
s Daniel who has ch, Mary, Nancy, Emma, Louisa, 
Augustus and Edwin. 

JESSUP FAMILY. 

John Jessup the first of this name is first recorded 
in the list of 1653. Thomas his son, died, a young- 
man, Sept 12 1684, leaving w Mary and one ch. 
Thomas b Aug 23 1684, and d Dec 8 of the same 
year. 1 John had ch. 2 John, 3 Thomas and 4 
kary. 2 John had ch. 5 Elizabeth b April 3 1 670, 
6 John b Sept 27 1671, 7 Isaac b Oct 12 1673 d 
1754, 8 Jeremiah b March 4 1678, 9 Henry b March 
12 1681, 10 Mary b March 2 1683, and 11 Hanmih 
b Jan 2 1685. 7 Isaac had w Abigail and ch. 12 
John b Oct 25 1698, 13 Nathaniel, 14 Abigail, 15 
Lewis and 16 Stephen. 12 John had w Phebe and 
ch. 17 Sarah b Jan 6 1725, 18 Abigail 1) Feb. 27 
1727, 19 Ann b Feb. 23 1730, 20 John b April 20 
1734, 21 Nathan b Sept 30 1736, 22 Hannah b Dec 
3 1739, and 23 Stephen b April 12 1743. 20 John 
had w Mary Halsey and ch 24 Isaac b March 11 
1757, 25 Matthew "b Feb 25 1759, 26 Mary b April 
2 1761, 27 Martha b Nov 21 1763, 28 Phebe, 29 



FAMILY RKCOKDS. 255 

Charity b March 22 1766, 30 Siisana b Ft^b 17 
1771, 31 Dency b Oct 21 1774, and 32 Sylvaims b 
Feb 14 1779. 25 Matthew liad 1st w Keturah and 
ch. 33 Martha and 34 Cynthia, and 2nd w Mercy 
Schallinger and ch. 35 John 8. of West Hampton, 
and 3d wife Eunice Herrick, and ch. 36 Henry H., 
37 Ann, 38 Hannah, 39 Jane, 40 Edward, and 41 
Fannini>-. 35 John S. has ch. Nathan, Frank, Isaac, 
Mercator and Sarah M. 15 Lewis d 1760, had di. 
8ilas, Abigail and Ruth. 9 Henry liad w Bethia 
and s 42 Deac. Thomas b Feb 28 1720-1, who had 
1st w Mehetabel who d Jan 31 1768, age 48, and 
m 2nd w Sybil 1770 and had ch. 43 Henry b June 
25 1743, 44 Th.^mas b March 21 1745, 45'Meheta- 
bel b May 18 1747, 46 Jeremiah b Aug 14 1749, 
47 Bethia b Sept 12 1751, 48 Zebulon b Sept 15 
1755, 49 Ebenezer b March 28 1759, and 50 Daniel 
b July 27 1761. 43 Henry of Quogue d 1824, ni 
Jane d of Hugh Raynrtr and had cli. 51 Mehetabel 
b July 23 1770, 52 Sarah b Dec 22 1772, 53 Lewis 
b Nov 22 1774, 54 Henry b Aug 11 1776, 55 Silas 
b March 10 1779,58 Apollos b Sept 13 1782,57 
Ruth b July 30 1786, and 58 Ebenezer b Sept 16 
1789. 55 Silas d 1841, m Susan Raynor, and had 
ch. 59 Egbert b June 16 1818, (who has ch. Susan, 
Fanny and Silas) 60 William b Nov 21 1819, d 
1852, and 61 Mary b Feb 20 1821. 48 Major Zeb- 
ulon d 1822, had w Zerviah and ch. 62 Harriet, 63 
William and 64 S. Huntting, who had ch. Zebulon 
and Elizabeth w of George Post. 63 William H. 
L.L. D., moved to Montrose Pa., and his name has 
since beciuiie honored in church and state. He had 



256 IIISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

eh. Jane, Mary, Harriet, William, Rev. Henry H., 
Samuel, Fanny, Annie, George A. and Huntting. 

JONES FAMILY. 

Edward Johnes, as the name was anciently written, 
is found here as early as Feb 1644, when a home 
lot is granted to him, jirovided he bring his family 
and remain. None of this family are now found in 
the village, though representatives of it still live in 
B. Hampton. 1 Edward d between 1653 and 1657 
had s 2 Samuel, grown, perhaps 30 years old, in 
1644, (he was not living in 1685) who had eh, 3 
Deac. Samuel b 1673 d 1760, and 4 Ephraim. 3 
Sanmel had w Esther and s 5 Samuel, who m Han- 
nah d of Christopher Foster Oct 2 1715, and had 
ch. 6 Hannah b Dec 16 1716, 7 Esther b Jan 12 
1718, 9 Phebe b Sept 19 1721, 10 Foster b Oct 13 
1723, 11 Mary b Nov 19 1726, 12 Elizabeth b May 
30 1729, 13 Abigail b Feb 13 1731, and 14 Samuel 
b Jan 1 1 733. 14 Samuel had ch. 15 Obadiah, and 
16 William. 15 Obadiah had ch. William of N. 
York, and Thomas of Southampton. 

LUDLOW FAMILY . 

The first of this name, anciently written Ludlam, 
and even as late as 1770, is William, who is found 
in the list of 1653. Anthony is named in the list 
of 1657. They appear to be nearly of the same 
'age, and probably were brothers. Anthony's family 
very early removed to Bridge Hampton, whih^ one 
branch of William's descendants lived in Water- 
mill. Some of the familv removed to New Jersey. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 2.57 

1 William had ch. 3 William and 4 Henry, (who 
was not living in 1692.) 4 Henry had ch. 5 Henry 
b Jan 8 1669, d 1737 and 6 William. 5 Henry had 
w Rachel and ch. 7 Abigail, 8 Henry, 9 Jeremiah, 
10 Deborah, 11 David, 12 Rachel, 13 Jane, 14 
Mercy and 15 William. 8 Henry d 1761, had ch. 
16 Jeremiah, 17 Jemima, 18 Silas, 19 Rachel, 20 
Henry, 21 Mary, 22 Stephen and 23 Sarah. 16 
Jeremiah had ch. 24 Isaac and 25 John. 24 Isaac 
had ch. Jeremiah, Isaac and Sylvanus. 25 John of 
Southampton had ch. Lucinda, Marietta and Charles 
A. 6 William d 1732, had w Sarah and ch. Wil- 
liam, Nehemiah, Sarah, Phebe and Martha, 2 An- 
thony had ch. 26 Anthony b 1652 d 1682, 27 Jo- 
seph, (who removed to Oyster Bay) and 28 Henry. 
26 Anthony had w Sarah and s 29 Anthony b 1670 
d 1723, who had 1st w Patience, 2nd w Abigail, 
and s 30 Anthony. 30 Anthony died 1759, had w 
Zerviah and ch. 31 Anthony, 32 Samuel, 33 Mary 
and 34 Ann. 31 Anthony d 1809, had w Elizabeth 
and ch. 35 Anthony b 1781 d 1843, 36 Elias, (who 
had s E. Jones) 37 Mary Rose, 38 Hannah Halsey, 
39 Zerviah Cook, 40 Elizabeth, 41 Jerusha, 42 Reah, 
43 Abraham and 44 Bilgah. 35 Anthony had ch. 
45 Charles Anthony, (who has s Anthony) 46 Jesse, 
47 Augustus, 48 Lafayette and 49 Samuel, who, 
while master of the Ship Gov. Clinton of N. Y., 
was lost, with all on board, in the Japan Sea, about 
1836. 

LUPTON FAMILY. 

This name has long disappeared from Southamp- 
ton village, but has still some representatives in 
37 



258 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Bridge Hampton. The name of 1 Christopher Lup- 
ton appears tirst on the list of 1657. He had w 
Abigail and ch. 2 John and 3 Joseph. 2 John d 
1716, had w Hannah, and ch. 4 John, 5 Christdplier, 
6 Josiah, 7 David, 8 Sarah, 9 Hannah and 10 
Mary. 4 John had ch. John, David, Rachel, Abi- 
gail and Mary. 3 Joseph had s Thomas who had 
w Mary and s Christo])her. 

MACKIE FAMILY. 

1 Dr. »)ohn Mackie came to Southampton from 
Dundee, in Scotland. He was a co temporary of the 
4th and 5th generations of the Southampton peo- 
ple. He was b 1695 and d 1758 leaving w Aiehet- 
abel and ch. 2 George b 1737, d 1813, 3 Peter, 4 
David b 1738 d 1819, and 5 Andrew, who removed. 
2 George m Jane d of Zebulon Howell, and had s 
George. 4 David had ch. Peter, William, Susan, 
Hannah and Elizabeth w of a Mr. Allen, (who had 
ch. John and William.) 

MARSHALL FAMILY. 

1 Joseph Marshall the first of this name came 
here subsequent to 1667. He had w Elizabeth and 
d 1685, leaving ch. 2 Joseph b Oct 3 1680, and 3 
Benjamin b Oct 15 1682 d 1752. 3 Benjamin had 
w Elizabeth and ch. 4 John, 5 Esther and 6 Joseph. 
4 John or 6 Joseph, (uncertain which) had s Joseph, 
who had s Gamaliel, who had ch. James and Syl- 
vanus. 

McCORKELL FAMILY. 

About the year 1816, James McCorkell came to 



FAMILY RECORDS. 2159 

Southampton from Ireland, and purchased a farm 
in the north end of the main street. His children 
were Samuel, James, William, Andrew, Margaret, 
Robert, Joseph and Mary. Samuel m Mary d of 
Albert Rogers. William m Harriet Topping and 
removed to Wisconsin. Andrew, Robert and Joseph, 
also moved west. James died at sea. 

MITCHET.L FAMILY. 

John Mitchell the first of this family is first men- 
tioned in the list of 1698, with s John and w or d 
Sarah. The family resided in Bridge Hampton. In 
1686 John M. of East Hampton, bought 20 acres 
of land in Mecox, of Mary wid. of Samuel Mills. 1 
John b 1660 d 1717 had s 2 John b 1684 d 1762. 

2 John had w Phebe and s 3 John b 1719 d 1774. 

3 John had w Mehetabel and ch. 4 Phebe b 1759, 5 
Stephen b 1762, and 6 James b 1765 d 1815. 5 
Stephen had ch. 7 Nathaniel and 8 John. 7 Na- 
thaniel had ch. Stephen and Edward b 1833. 6 
James had ch. 9 Mary, 10 Samuel, 11 Phebe, w of 
Hugh Halsey, 12 Edward, (who has ch. James and 
John) and 13 Catherine w of Josiah Pnst. 

MOREHOUSE FAMILY. 

John Morehouse is found first on the list of 1683. 
He lived in Bridge Hampton, and had s John who 
had ch. Nathan, Gideon and John, the two latter of 
whom moved away to parts unknown. As none of 
this family are known to be now living in South- 
ampton, a complete genealogy is, of course, beyond 
the power of the writer to give. 



260 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

PARKER FAMILY. 

One family <)1 this name living in Bridge Hamp- 
ton is descended from 1 Jeremiah P. who came here 
from Wales. He had s Jeremiah who had ch. 2 
Matilda w of E. Reed of Newhnrg N. Y., 3 Hul- 
dah w of Geo. Lugar of Mystic Ct., 4 John of Vi7- 
ginia, and 5 Rodney of B. Hampton, [who has ch. 
James L., John, William H. b 1836, Phebe, Elenora, 
Laura, Clarissa, Margaret, Emily and Sarah.] 

PARSONS FAMILY. 

This is one of the oldest families of East Hamp- 
ton, from whence 12 Charles Parsons came to South- 
ampton. He m Eleanor d of Stephen Harris, and 
had ch. Mary w of Dr. Gildersleeve of Port Jef- 
ferson, L. I., and Sarah J. w of Charles White of 
Southampton. 1 Samuel of E. Hampton had ch. 
2 Samuel, 3 .lohn and 4 Robert. 3 John had s 5 
Seth b 1665 d 1725. 5 Seth had s 6 John b 1705 
d 1793, who had s 7 Elnathan, who had ch. 8 El- 
nathan, (who had ch. Rev. Henry M. and Charles) 
9 Solon, 10 Nathaniel, 11 William D., 12 Charles, 
13 Phebe D. and 14 Jonathan. 

PELLETREAU FAMILY. 

Among the many thousands driven from their na- 
tive land by persecutions carried on by the papal 
power in France, immediately following the revoca- 
tion of the Edict of Nantes in 1 685, were the Pel- 
letreau's of La Rochelle, where this family appear 
to have originated, their ancestors, according to tra- 
dition, having taken an active part in the famous 



FAMILY RECORDS, 261 

defense of that city against the forces of Richelieu. 
The emigres consisted of 1 Jean Pelletreau and his 
wife Maojdalena, their nephew 2 Jean, and 3 Elie, the 
latter having at the time of his arrival two sons, 4 
Jean and Elie, (which names were soon Anglicised 
into John and Elias.) 

/yoi 

[Autograph of Elie Pelletreau.] 

1 Jean was naturalized inN. Y. Sep 22 1687, and d 1700 
and w Magdalena in 1702 without ch. 2 John d in 
1702 or 3 without ch. and he and his bro. Elias 
were naturalized July 10 1696. All of this family- 
were members of the French Church in New York, 
and in their wills left legacies for the support of the 
poor of the congregation » ^ In the troubles of the 
church in 1724, among the adherents of Rev. Lewis 
Row, as against the party for Rev. Mr. Mouliner, 
were Elie, Elias Jr., Paul, and Francis Pelletreau. 
Doc. Hist. N. Y. 

[Autograph of Francis Pelletreau.) 

3 Elias d 1730 and had ch. 4 Elias, 5 Francis, 
6 Paul, 7 John, and 8 Benjamin. 4 Elias had 
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262 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

s 9 Elias who had ch. 10 Elias, 11 Mary, 12 
Samuel and 13 John. 10 Elias had ch. 14 
Kachel, 15 George, 16 Mary, 17 John, 18 Elias, 
19 Elizabeth and 20 Jane. 18 Elias had ch. 
21 Charles, 22 Joana, 23 Catherine, 24 Josepli, 25 
Eliza, 26 William, 27 Ann, 28 Mary, 29 Eleanor, 
30 Amanda, 31 John E., 32 Cornelius D., (who had 
ch. Nellie and Joseph) and 33 Edward, (who has 
ch. Edward, Florence and Ida.) 21 Charles had ch. 
34 Sarah A., 35 Evelyn, 36 Helen, 37 Charles H. 
(who has ch. Frances and Charles H.) 38 Kate R., 
39 John E. and 40 Stephen. 31 John E. had ch. 
41 Isabel, 42 William, (who has ch. William and 
Lizzie) 43 John, (who has s John) 44 Mary, 45 
Ella, 46 Charles, 47 Frank, 48 Harry and 49 Clara. 
13 John had ch. Susan, Jenny and John. 5 Francis 
came to Southampton in 1720, and purchased the 
homestead of Samuel Woodruff, which was then in 
occupation of Stephen Boyer, mentioned in another 
place. 5 Francis d in London Sept 27 1737, and 
had ch. 50 Hannah, 51 Capt. Elias b 1726 d 1810, 
and 52 Mary. 51 Capt. Elias had w Sarah and ch. 
53 Francis, 54 John b 1755 d 1822, 55 Hugh, 56 
Jane and 57 Elias. 54 John had w Mary and ch. 
58 William S., 59 Nathaniel, 60 Charles, 61 Edwin, 
and 62 John. 58 William S. had ch. 63 Jane, 64 
Albert, 65 Alexander, (who has Josephine and Wil- 
liam A.) 66 Mary G., 67 Fanny, 68 William S., 69 
Hugh, 70 Gilbert, (who had d Frances M.) and 71 
Helen. 59 Nathaniel had ch. Walter, Mary and 
Maria. 57 Elias had w Hannah and ch. 72 Francis, 
(Avho has ch. Henry and Cornelia) 73 Elias and 74 



FAMILY RECORDS. 263 

Maltby. 73 Elias had s Jesse W. of Moriches, who 
has ch. Mary, Jessie and Legrand, 74 Maltby had 
ch. 75 Elias H., 76 Maltby and 77 William, who 
had s William. 51 Capt. Elias Pelletreau in his 
last sickness fell into a trance. He lay many hours 
insensible and apparently dead. He was aroused at 
last by the efforts of his friends, and looking up, he 
said, " Why do you bring back the dead to the liv- 
ino- ? 1 have heard and seen things unutterable ! " 
Saying this he fell again into a repose, and died soon 
after. Those around him were dumb with astonish- 
ment. His minister. Rev. Mr. Bogart, always re- 
gretted he had not then been called in. 

PIERSON FAMILY. 

Henry Pierson, the ancestor of the families of this 
name, now living in the town, came during the first 
or second year of the settlement. It is not known 
what, if any, relationship existed between him and 
Rev. Abraham Pierson, of whom an account has 
been given in the seventh chapter. His descendants 
are numerous, though but one family of this name 
resides in the village of Southampton at the present 
time. Like all or nearly all of the first settlers, 
Mr, Henry Pierson was a Christian. In his own 
handwriting [and he was a fine penman and town 
clerk for many years,] on the town Records, penned 
doubtless in a devout frame of mind, is found the 
following : * 

" Jehovah I upou thee call ! 
O make thou haste to me, 
And hearken thou unto my Toyce, 
When I do crye to thee." 



264 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

1 Henry d 1680, had w Mary and ch. 2 Joseph, 3 
Henry b 1652 d 1701, 4 Benjamin, (who removed to 
Elizabeth, N. Jersey.) 5 Theodore and 6 Sarah h 
Jan 20 1660. 2 Joseph Nov. 17 1675 m Amy 
Barnes, and had ch. 7 Amy h Oct 28 1676, 8 Henry 
b April 17, 1678. 9 Mary b June 12, 1680, 10 Jo- 
seph b Aug 6 1682, 11 Ephraim b Jan 20 1687, and 

12 Samuel b Feb 24 1690. 8 Henry m Abigail Lud- 
1am June 11 1702, and had ch. 13 Henry b Feb 1 
1704, 14 William b April 1 1706, 15 Azel b Sept 

13 1708, 16 John b Dec. 20 1710, 17 Eli b Dec 30 
1712, 18 Abigail b Feb 28 1714, 19 Amy b Oct 11 
1716, and 20 Samuel b March 15 1721. 20 Samuel 
had ch. 21 Timothy and 22 Samuel. 21 Timothy 
had ch. 23 James, 24 Charles, 25 Eli, 26 Timothy 
and 27 William. 23 James had ch. 28 William, 29 
James, [who had ch. Edward and Alice] 30 Henry, 
31 Philetus, [who has ch, James H., Harriet w of 
Jetur R. Rogers and Mary] and 32 Milicent Wick. 
10 Joseph had ch. 33 Joseph b Feb 3 1707, 34 
Sarah b Feb 13 1709, 35 Phebe b July 2 1711, 36 
Benjamin b Feb 5 1714, 37 Daniel b June 30 1716, 
and 38 Hannah b March 6 1719. 3 Henry had w 
Susana and ch. 39 John b 1685 d 1705, 40 David b 
1688, 41 Theophilus b 1690 d 1742, 42 Abraham b 
1693 and 43 Josiah b 1695 d 1776. 40 David had 
s 44 Lemuel b 1717, who had w Martha and ch. 45 
Lemuel b 1744 d 1821, 46 David b 1751 d 1829, 
and 47 Isaac b 1758, who had ch. Elisha b 1781, 
Eleazer b 1785, and Mai thy b 1795. 45 Lemuel 
had ch. Henry and Franklin, 46 David had w 
Susana and s 48 Jesse b 1780 d 1840, who had w 



FAMILY RECORDS. ^I€35 

Elizabeth and ch. David h 1801, (jreorge, Robert 
and James. 41 Theophilus had ch. 49 Henry, 50 
Nathan b 1723 d 1810 and 51 Stephen b 1729. 49 
Henry d 1783,. had ch. 52 Shadrach, [who had ch. 
Henry, Moses, James, Joseph and Rufus] and 53 
James b 1750 who had s Sylvanns. 50 Nathan had 
w Abigail- and ch. 54 Nathan, 55 Zechariah, [who 
Jiad s James] and 56 Jeremiah. 51 Stephen had 
ch. 57 Theophilus b 1743, and 58 Elias. 57 
Theophilus had ch. 59 Elias, 60 Charles, [who had 
8 Henry] 61 Jeremiah, 62 Paul, [who had ch. James 
F. and Charles F.J 63 Harvey and 64 Solon. 42 
Abraham had w Prudt^nce and ch. 65 Matthew b 
1744, [who had ch, Hiram and Silas] 66 Silas, 67 
William and 68 Zebulon. 68 Zebulon had ch. 69 
John, 70 Abraham, [who had ch. Huntting, Isaac, 
and Eliphalet] and 71 D. William, [who had ch. 
Nathan, John and Stephen.] 43 Josiah had w 
Martha and ch. 72 Silas, 73 Matthew b 1725 d 1798, 
74 Sylvanus, 75 Paul, 76 Timothy b 1731, 77 Jo- 
siah, 78 Joseph, 79 Benjamin and 80 John. 73 
Matthew had w Phebe and s Henry, who had ch. 
Josiah and Joseph. 

5 Theodore had ch. 81 Job b 1697 d 1788 and 82 
John. 81 Job had w Hannah and ch. 83 Lemuel b 
1723 and 84 David. 83 Lemuel had ch. 85 Samuel 
b 1753, and 86 William b 1762, (who had ch. Ter- 
rill, Alfred b 1793, T. Jefferson and Hiram.) 85 
Samuel had ch. Dayton and Job. 82 John had ch. 
87 Daniel, 88 Stephen and 89 Jedediah. 87 Daniel 
had ch, 90 Job b 1758, [who had ch. James, Halsey, 
and Alanson) and John b 1772 d 1853, [who had w 
39 



266 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Hannah and ch. Nathaniel, John, and Daniel H.] 
88 Stephen had ch. James and John. 89 Jedediah 
had eh. 91 Caleb b 1764 d 1834, 92 Daniel, 93 Gor- 
don, (who has ch. Elihu and Theodore) and 94 
Peleg. 

POST FAMILY. 

Richard Post appears first in this town io May 
1643, when he receives a home lot from the pro- 
prietors. In the latter part of his life he appears 
to have given his home to his son Joseph, and he 
lived with a daughter and son-in-law until his death 
in 1689. 1 Richard had w Dorothy and ch. 2 John, 
3 Thomas and 4 Joseph b 1649 d 1721. 2 John 
had ch. 5 Capt John b 1674 d 1741, 6 Jeremiah 
and 7 Richard. 5 Capt. John had ch. 8 John, 9 
Joseph b 1704 d 1780, and 10 Isaac b 1712 d 1785. 
8 John had ch. 11 John, 12 James and 13 Abraham. 
12 James had w Mary and ch. 14 William, 15 
James and 16 Caleb. 15 James m Hannah d of 
Obadiah Rogers and had ch. 17 William R., (who 
had ch. James H. and Edward R.) 18 Mary, 19 
Jane, w of Rev. Hugh N. Wilson D. D., 20 Julia 
A., 21 Edwin, (who has ch. Harriet R., Henry and 
William) 22 Phebe and 23 Henry. 13 Abraham 
had ch. 24 Oliver and 25 Abraham. 24 Oliver had 
ch. 26 George 0. of Quogue, and 27 Josiah H., (who 
had 8 George E.) 25 Abraham had s John of 
Quogue. 9 Joseph had w Bethia and ch. 28 Stephen, 
29 Joseph, 30 Jeremiah, 31 Nathan b 1748 d 1803, 
and 32 Henry H, 28 Stephen had ch. 33 George, 
34 Keaiah, 35 Howell, 36 Abital, and 37 Stephen. 
33 George had ch. William H. of California, Hunt- 



FAMILY RECORDS. 267 

ting J., of Palmyra N. Y., George, Nathan, Albert 
J., Sarah E., Charles, Mary H., Frederic, Peter and 
George. 37 Stephen who must have been the 
oldest ch. of 28 Stephen, had s William, who has 
ch. Ann E., Harriet, Mary and others. 30 Jeremiah 
had w Mehetabel, and s Samuel b 1766 d 1846, who 
had w Cynthia and d Elizabeth w of Albert 
Reeve. 

31 Nathan had w Mehetabel and s Lodowick, who 
had 8 Robert b 1806 d 1849, who had s Nathan of 
B. Hampton. 

PROUD FAMILY. 

John Proud started from England in May 1817 in 
a packet ship on which were many passengers, 
among whom was George Bowden before mentioned. 
On their voyage they met with hard winds and 
storms which continually drove them from their 
course. They were 110 days on their passage, and 
all on board were put on short rations. At length, 
suffering for want of food, ten of the passengers, 
among whom were Messrs. Proud and Bowden, 
requested the captain to set them ashore on the first 
land they made. This proved to be Montauk Point 
where they were landed, and the two above men- 
tioned, remained and settled in Southampton. By 
their own testimony they met the kindest of friends 
in the people of Montauk and Amagansett, who re- 
lieved all their necessities, and sent them on their 
way rejoicing. John Proud m Phebe Brown and 
had ch. Phebe w of William F. White, and Henry 
who now resides in Bridgeport, Ct. 



268 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

RAYNOR FAMILY. 

According to Savage Thurstoa Raynoj- came i'rona 
Ipswich, Co. of Suffolk, 1634, with w Elizabeth 
aged 36, and he 40, and ch. Thurston 13, Joseph 11, 
Elizabt>th 9, Sarah 7, and Lydia 1. Went to 
Watert(»wn, Mass., thence to Wethersfield Ct. in 
1638, thence to Stamford in 1641, and if \u- is the 
Thurston of Southampton, from Stamford to New 
Haven, since the first settler of Southampton, ap- 
pears to have come from the latter city. He died 
about 1667, leaving w Martha, and besides the chil- 
dren above, a d Deborah. The Town records seems 
to confirm this statement of Savage, and the ge- 
nealogy on this theory is as follows : 1 Thurston 
had 1st w Elizabeth and 2d w Martha and d 1667, 
leaving ch. 2 Thurston b 1621, 3 Joseph b 1623 d 
about 1682, 4 Elizabeth b 1625, 5 Sarah b 1627, 6 
Lydia b 1633, and 7 Deborah. 2 Thurston had w 
Martha and s 8 Jonathan b about 1650, who m 
Sarah Pierson June 2 1680, and had s 9 Jonathan 
b March 4 1681 d 1741, who ra Irene Herrick July 
27 1704, and had ch. 10 Jonathan and 1 1 David b 
Jan 18 1705-6, 12 Adonijah b Aug 24 1708, 13 
Elihu b Nov 18 1710, 14 Sarah b March 18 
1713, 15 Nathan b Feb 14 1717, 16 William b Oct 
1 1719, and 17 Henry b June.9 1722. 12 Adonijah 
had s 18 Adonijah, who had ch. 19 Oliver, 20 
Catherine w of Mr. Wade, 21 George, 22 Sylvanus, 
23 Abigail, 24 Rebecca, 25 William and 26 Charles, 
3 Joseph had ch, 27 Thurston, (who had w Sarah 
and d. Mary) 28 John, 29 Isaac, 30 Elizabeth and 
31 Josiah. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 269 

REEVES FAMILY. 

Thomas and James Reeves, brothers, came to 
America in 1660. They settled in Southold where 
James remained, but Thomas soon after 1667, re- 
moved to Southampton and settled. The descend- 
ants of James in Southold, write the name Reeve. 

1 Thomas d 1685 had w Rebecca and ch. 2 John 
b July 15 1673, 3 Rebecca b March 1 1676, 4 Thomas 
b Oct 3 1679, 5 Hannah b Feb 9 1681, and 6 Abi- 
gail b Sept 22 1684. 2 John had w Rachel and s 7 
Stephen, who had ch. 8 John and 9 David b 1741. 
8 John had ch. 10 John, 11 Edward, 12 Abraham, 
13 Jesse and 14 Thomas, (who had s James.) 11 
Edward had w Lucretia and ch. 15 Henry, (who 
has ch. Edward C. and Albert C.) 16 Lemuel, who 
has ch. Henry A. and others), 17 Albert, (who has 
ch. Samuel P. and Elizabeth) 18 Augustus, and 19 
Harriet w of James Howell. 9 David m Hannah, 
Dec 9 1768, and had ch. Charlotte b Feb 25 1770, 
Apollos b Sept 2 1771, and David b April 29 1779. 

4 Thomas had s 20 David b 1725 who m/grA^ have 
been the brother of 21 Bethuel who in 1758 appears 
in North Sea. 21 Bethuel must liave been the son 
of either 2 John or 4 Thomas, and had ch. 22 Joel 
b 1755 d 1831, 23 Daniel and 24 Jeremiah. 22 
Joel had w Anna and ch. 25 Bethuel, 26 Rumsey, 
27 Wines, 28 Jeremiah, (who had ch. Jetur, Barna- 
bas, Jeremiah, Frances, Bethuel, Josephine, Char- 
lotte and Charles) and 29 Jetur. 

ROGERS FAMILY. 

1 William Roerers or Rodoers as the name is some- 
times written on the Town Records, is mentioned as 
40 



270 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

a resident from 1642, to, at least, March 1645-6*. 
In 1645 the Gen. Court make him a grant of land. 
In 1649 he is made freeman. He appears to have 
had a home in Hempstead, for a few years previous 
to 1649. From 1649 to 1655 we iind him an inhab- 
itant of Southampton, and after this disappears al- 
together. Nor can any will of his be found on 
record. Subsequent to 1655 Obadiah Rogers is 
mentioned as residing on the same homestead that 
William had occupied. In 1669 Widow Ann 
Rogers of Hunttington makes a will, leaving ch. 2 
Obadiah, 3 John, 4 Samuel, 5 Mary, 6 Hannah and 

7 Noah : of these 2 Obadiah is called the oldest and 
is spoken of as living in Southampton. Now it is 
probable that 1 William gave the Southampton 
homestead to Obadiah about 1655. and with his w 
and younger ch. removed to Hunttington where he 
might have resided several years. 3 John and 7 
Noah removed to Branford, Ct., and in the earliest 
deeds there recorded in which they are grantees of 
land, they are mentioned as " late of Hunttington 
L. I." John left no issue. These two brothers 
received a large inheritance from their father as ap- 
years from the Branford Records. 2 Obadiah d be- 
tween 1687 and 1690, had w Mary and ch. 8 Oba- 
diah b 1655 d 1729, 9 Mary, 10 Sarah Hakelton,ll 
Elizabeth, 12 Paiience, 13 Jonah and 14Zechariah. 

8 Obadiah had w Mary and s 15 Capt. Obadiah b 
1699 d 1783, who had w Abigail and ch. 16 Stephen 
b May 6 1722, 17 Mehetabel b Jan. 30 1725, 18 
James b Dec 12 1729, 19 Milicent b June 5 1732, 
20 Ruth b Sept 8 1734, 21 Mary b Sept 27 1736, 



FAMILY RECORDS. 271 

22 Phebe b Feb 1 1738, and 23 Zephauiali b June 
25 1742. 16 Stephen m Phebe Feb 23 17'44 and 
had ch. 24 Obadiah b Feb 10 1745,, 25 Aliij^ail b 
Sept 7 1746, 26 Gabriel b March 25 1748, 27"cor- 
neliiis b Nov 14 1750, 28 Silas b June 8 1752. 29 
Hannah b Jan. 5 1754, 30 Mary b Oct 22 1755, 31 
Henry b Sept 13 1757, 32 Matthew b Dec 10 1762, 
33 Phebe b Aug 5 1764, 34 Stephen b Oct 25 1765, 
and 35 Mehetabel w of Ca])t. Oliver Howell b Dec 
27 1768. (16 Stephen m 2d w Hannah wid, 
of Matthew Howell June 30 1761.) 24 Oba- 
diah had ch. Hannah w of James Post and 
Phebe w of Mr. Brown. 32 Matthew d 1844 m 
Euth Sayre and had ch. Mary w of Charles Howell 
and Nancy w (tf Albert Foster. 

18 James had s Jert^niah of Qu(tgue. 23 Zeph- 
aniah d 1797 had w Elizabeth and s 36 Herrick who 
had ch. 37 Albert b 1807 d 1854, 38 Jetur and 39 
Harriet w of Augustus B. Ualsey. 37 Albert had 
w Cordelia and ch. Mary, Jetur and Edwin. 13 
Jonah had s 40 Jonah, who had ch. 41 William and 
42 Joshua. 42 Joshua had s 43 Jonah who had ch. 
Jonah and Chapman of Sag [larbor. 13 Jonah 
had also ch. 44 Joseph and 45 William, both of B. 
Hampton, and perhaps 46 David who belongs to 
same generation as the two latter. 44 Joseph d 
1761 had ch. 47 John, 48 Hannah, 49 Elizabeth, 
50 Sarah, 51 Joseph, (who went to Speonk) 52 
Zachariah, (who had s Lewis of North Side) 53 
Elias, 54 Ruth and 55 Nathaniel, who had ch, Abra- 
ham and Selah. 47 John had ch. 56 J. Topping b 
1759 d 1816, and 57 Jcsiah. 56 J. Topping had w 



2T2 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Sarah and ch. 58 John, 59 Nathaniel, and 60 Jere- 
miah b 1797 d 1859. 59 Nathaniel had ch. George, 
Dennison, Edmund and Dr. James, of Sag Harbor. 
57 Josiah had ch. Euclid, of Sag Harbor and Cliarles. 
45 William had ch. 61 Capt. William b 1744 d 
1813, and 62 Judge Jonathan b 1746 d 18l9. 61 
William had w Mary and ch. 63 William b 1783 d 
1840, and 64 Caleb b 1796 d 1842. 63 William 
had w Susana and ch. 65 Jones, (who had s Wil- 
liam) 66 Richard, [who had ch. Orlando and Edwin] 
and 67 Louisa w of Daniel Halsey. 62 Jonathan 
had w Mary and s 68 Benjamin b 1769 d 1842, who 
had w Abigail and ch. 69 B. Franklin, [who has ch. 
Melinor, Phebe and Agnes] and 70 Caleb, [who had 
ch. Benjamin and Charles.] 46 David had s 71 
David, who had ch. 72 D. Hedges and 73 Peleg. 72 
D. Hedges had ch. James, Josiah and David. 73 
Peleg had s Horatio. 7 Noah had ch. 74 Mary b 
1675, 75 John b 1677, 76 Josiah b 1679, 77 Heze- 
kiah, 78 Noah, 79 Elizabeth and 80 Anna. 

76 Josiah had w Lydia and ch. 81 Lydia b 1714, 
82 Jonathan b 1715, 83 Levi b 1716, 84 Thomas 
and 85 Josiah, (who had w Martha and s 86 Rev. 
Medad.) 86 Rev. Medad had w Rachel and ch. 87 
Flora b 1790, 88 Louisa b 1792 and 89 Amzi b 
1793, who had w Betsey and ch. David B. b 1815, 
Samuel B. b 1815, Theodore D. b 1822, Ann E b 
1826, Emily L. b 1831, and Harriet b 1837. 78 
Noah had s 90 Noah, who had s 9 1 Noah, who had 
s 92 Noah, who had s 93 Noah, who had s 94 Noah 
of Cornwall, Ct. 

Information concerniny; the descendants of 7 



FAMILY RECORDS. 273 

Noah has been furnished by Theodore D. Rogers, 
Esq., son of 89 Amzi, whose family resides in Conn. 

ROSE FAMILY. 

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, the fol- 
low account is taken : " Robert Rose of Wethers- 
field in 1639, came in the Francis from Ipswich, 
Co. of Suffolk, in 1634, aged 40, with w Margery 
40, and ch. John 15, Robert 15, Elizabeth 13, Mary 
11, Samuel 9, Sarah 7, Daniel 3 and Dorcas 2. He 
removed before 1648 t(i Stratford, where the list of 
freemen, 1669, bears his name, [unless it be his son 
Robert, which is more probable, for one Robert died 
at Branford, leaving good estate in 1664 or 5."] 

This would set^m to be the same Robert that we 
find in Southampton in 1644, but not later than 
1648. A Robert Rose was among the first settlers 
of East Hampton, but did not remain long. Now 
we may suppose Robert, the father resided suc- 
cessively in Wethersfield 1639, Southampton 1644-8, 
East Hampton a few years, then Branford, where 
many of the Long Island people removed ; and that 
his son Robert lived and died at Stratford, and his 
son John and youngest son Thomas, resided in 
Southampton. My impression is that I have seen 
in the town Records a writing which mentions John 
and Thomas as the sons of Robert, but cannot now 
refer to it. Assuming this to be true, we have — 
1 Robert has w Margery, and ch, 2 John, and others 
as before. 2 John b 1634 d 1697, had ch. 3 John, 
4 David, 5 James, 6 Hannah, 7 Thomas and 8 
Martyn. 3 John had ch. 9 David and 10 James b 
41 



274 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

about 1(>92. 9 David had s 11 David who had s 12 
Capt. David b 1753 d 1836, who had 1st w Mary 
and 2d w Nlancy and ch. 13 D. Rogers, 14 John b 
1802 d 1854, 15 Austin and 16 Nancy w of Micaiah 
Herrick. 13 D. Rogers had ch. Jetur, Emma w of 
John Richard and D. Harold. 4 David d 1717, 
had ch. Hannah, David, Daniel and Obadiah. 

8 Martyn had w Sarah ch. 17 Zaccheus b 1700 d 
1742, 18 Stephen, [who removed to near Trenton, 
N. J.,] 19 Christopher, [who removed] 20 John, [who 
removed to Orange Co. N. Y.] anil 21 Abraham. 17 
Zaccheus had w Anna and ch. 22 Stephen b 1742 
d 1 806 and 23 Mosf^s. 22 Stephen had w Chloe and 
ch. 24 Jeremiah, 25 Zaccheus, 26 Silas, of Ct. (who 
had Ch. Caleb F., Geoige, Phebe, Emily and So- 
phronia) 27 Deac. Stephen and 28 Phebe w of Tim- 
othy Holmes of Ct. 27 Deac. Stephen b June 
5 1780 m 1st w Phebe Haynes, (who was b 
May 5 1780 and d Aug 14 1817) Feb 10 1805. He 
m 2d w Maria Pierson, (who was b Nov 21 1788 
and d April 2 1831) Nov 5 1818. He m 3rl w 
Nancy Haynes, (who was b Aug 10 1794) March 
21 1832. His ch. were 29 Stephen b June 17 1806, 

30 David b July 25 1808, 31 Eliphalet b July 26 
1810, 32 Chloe' b March 20 1813, 33 Mehetabel b 
Aug 24 1815, 34 Phebe b Aug 7 1817, 35 Benjamin 
F. b Cct 10 1819. 36 Aaron W. b July 8 1821, 37 
Hemy Martyn b March 10 1823, 38 "^ John H. b 
Aug 30 1824, 39 Mary C. b Sept 1 1826, 40 Maria 
E. b Nov. 18 1834, 41 Helen B. b June 28 1836. 

31 Eliphalet lias s Rev. William of Omeha City, 
Kansas. 37 Henry Martyn m Elizabeth d of Sul- 



FAMILY RECORDS, 275 

livan Cook, and has ch. Anna, Lottie, Nettie, Frank 
and Stephen. 23 Moses had ch. 42 Jeremiah, 43 
Simon, 44 Martyn, (who had s Lupton of Sebonac) 
and 45 Luther of Towd. 43 Simon had s Harvey, 
who has ch. Frederic and others. 21 Abraham had 
ch. 46 Abraham, 47 Dr. Samuel and 48 Kufus. 46 
Abraham had s 49 Maltbey, who had ch. Elbert and 
Abraham. 47 Dr. Samuel had s 50 Judge Abra- 
ham T., who had ch. Samuel, Matilda, Adelaide, 
Caroline, Evelyn and Nettie. 48 Rufus had s 51 
Col. Edwin, who had s Rufns. 27 Deac. Stephen 
now about 86 years of age, and possessing a remark- 
able memory, has been of invaluable assistance in 
preparing this part of my work. 

SANnF(mD FAMILY. 

1 Thomas Sandford was a resident of Boston in 
1674, but of Southampton, as by the Records in 
1676. Some branches of the family have mutilated 
the name by dropping the Middle d. It would ap- 
pear that Thomas had besides 2 Ezekiel, another 
son Zachariah, from the fact that in 1736 a Zachariah 
is mentioned as having two sons Hem y and Stephen 
there grown, who probably removed, since they .**oon 
after disappear from the Records. 1 Thomas b 
1631 had s 2 Ezekiel, who d 1716 and had w Han- 
nah and ch. 3 Ezekiel b 1681 d 1755, 4 Thomas b 
1684 d 1761, 5 Abigail and 6 Zachariah. 3 Ezekiel 
had w Dorcas and ch. 7 Ezekiel, 8 Sarah Hedges, 
9 Abigail Sayre, 10 Pliebe Jessup and 11 David, 
(who had ch. Lewis and Zachariah.) 7 Ezekiel had 
ch. 12 James, (who had ch. James L., John and 



276 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Benjamin) 13 Sylvanus b 1743 d 1778, [who had s 
Charles] 14 [liram and 15 Isaac, [the rich farmer of 
Illinois]. 4 Thomas had ch. 16 Thomas, 17 Jonah, 
18 John, [who had s Hezekiah] 19 Susana and 20 
Silas who had ch. Silas, Zephaniah, Sarah and Han- 
nah. 6 Zachariah had ch. 21 Joel b 1727 d 1797, 
22 Daniel b 1737 d 1807, and 23 Elias. 22 Daniel 
had w Phebe and ch. 24 Samuel b 1762, and 25 
Jason b 1778 d 1859. 24 Samuel had w Phebe and 
oh. 26 Sarah b 1790, 27 Samuel b 1791 d 1866, 
[who had s Lewis b 1814] 28 Hervey b 1795, 29 
Jason b 1798, [who removed to Palmyra, N. Y.] 
30 Nathan b 1800, and 31 Eliza. 25 Jason had s 
D. Hedges. 23 Elias had s 32 Elias, who had s 
33 Isaac, who has s James Lawrence. 

SAYRE FAMILY. 

Thomas Sayre the first of this name in South- 
ampton, was one of the eight original " Under- 
takers," and came here in 1640. He came from 
Bedfordshire, Eng., as appears frou: +t^j examin.8- 
tion of his son Job, before: the Dutch council before 
narrated. Ii}. I§s8 he and his s Job have each 60 
acr|:^-of land allotted to them in Lynn, Mass. The 
arms of this tamily are : Gules, a chevron ermine 
between three seagulls argent. 

1 Thomas d 1670 b about 1594, had ch. 2 Francis, 
3 Daniel, 4 Joseph and 5 Job. 2 Francis had w 
Sarah and ch. 6 John b Jan 14 1665 d 1724, 7 
Thomas b 1667 d 1715, 8 Francis b June 17 1669, 
9 Jonathan, 10 Ichabod and 1 1 Caleb. 6 John had 
ch. 12 John b March 17 1692, 13 Thomas b July 



FAMILY RKCOKD'S. 277 

1 161)6, 14 Damaris h May 9 1098, If) Elizabeth b 
Manli 23 1701, IG Jonathan 1) Jan. 18 1705, 17 
Sarah b Aug 11 1709, and 18 Hannah b Aug 22 
1715, 12 Deac. John had w Hannah in April 18 
1717, and had ch. 19 Prudence b April 12 1718, 20 
Abigail b April 8 1720, 21 John b March 17 1722, 
22 Luce b Aug 17 1723, 23 Eunice b Dec 11 1725, 
24 Hannah w of Stephen Rogers b Oct 20 1727, 25 
Sarah b Sept 3 1729, 26 Matthew b July 17 1731 d 
1819, 27 Annb June 1733, and 28 Stephen, Sheriff 
of London, b June 12 1736. 21 Johu-had ch. 29 
David, 30 Sylvanus, and 31 Abraham, (who iiau -J' 
Foster of Franklinville.) 26 Matthew had ch. 32 
Daniel b May 10 1765, of Cairo N. Y., 33 Francis 
b Sept 28 1766, 34 Eunice b March 30 1768, 35 
John b June 13 1771, (removed) 36 Simon b July 
8 1774, 37 Nathan b April 12, 1776, [who had s 
John of Franklinville] and 38 Joel b Nov 2 1778. 

32 Daniel had son 39 Matthew, (who has s Simon.) 

33 Francis had s 40 Thomas, who had ch. Matthew, 
Adelaide, Lucilla, Julia and Edward F. 10 Ichabod 
had ch. 41 Ichalwd, 42 Joshua and 43 Stephen. 41 
Ichabod had ch. 44 Francis and 45 Ananias. 44 
Francis had ch. 46 Francis and 47 James. 42 
Joshua had ch. 48 Paul, 49 Rufus, (who had ch. 
William, Fanny w of Halsey Foster, and Susan w 
of James Sayre) 50 Enoch, 51 Silas, (who had s 
Rev. William N. of Pine Plains, N. Y.) 52 Thomas 
and 53 William. 48 Paul had s 54 Edward, (who 
has ch. Rev. Edward H. James, Henry and Rufus.) 
52 Thomas had ch. James, Rufus, Rogers, Eliza- 
beth w of Geo. Howell, Harriet w of Edward Hunt- 

42 



1278 HISTOUY of SOUTHAMPTON. 

ting, and Abbie w ..f Jonathan Fithian. 3 Daniel 
had ch. 55 Capt. Daniel of B. Hamptun b 1666 d 
1748, (who had s John) 56 Samuel, 57 Josei)h, 58 
Ephraim and 59 Nathan. 4 Joseph had ch. 60 
Isaac d 1726, 61 Ethan and 62 Silas. 60 Isaac had 
w Elizabeth and s 63 Isaac, and })robably 64 Joseph. 
64 Joseph d 1779, had w Mary and ch. 65 Isaac b 
1757 d 1850 and 66 Jol). 65 Isaac had w Jerusha 
and ch. 67 Isaac b 1789 d 1853, (who had ch. Mary 
A., F. Spencer, Eugene, Wallace, Harriet, Adelaide 
and Louis-^)- Sb Hervey, 69 Jehiel, (who had ch. 
tlalsey, William, George and Julius) and 70 Francis, 
who had s Wm. Henry. 5 Job d 1694, had w Han- 
nah and ch. 7 1 Job b Aug 25 1672, 72 Benjamin b 
Aug 19 1674, 73 James b Sept 12 1676, 74 Eliza- 
beth b March 11 1678, 75 Sarah b May 4 1680, and 
76 Abraham b July 5 1683. 73 James removed to 
Orange Co. N. Y. 71 Job had ch. 77 Nehemiah 
and 78 James. 77 Nehemiah m Bethia Cooper 
Dec 24 1741, and had ch. 79 Elizabeth, b Apr 18. 
1743, 80 Abraham b Feb 5 1745, 81 James b July 
3 1748, 82 John b Jan 5 1752, 83 Hannah b Nov 7 
1746, and 84 Jane b March 24 1759. 80 Abraham 
m Mehetabel d of Abner Howell, and had ch. 85 
Stephen b Feb 27 1770, 86 Eunice b F( b 16 1774, 
87 Merit b Sept 20 1771, 88 Age b March 6 1776, 
89 Kuth b Aug 17 1778, w of Matthew Rogers, 90 
Beulah b Dec 4 1783 w oi Joseph Hildreth, 91 
William b Sept 26 1787, 92 Nehemiah b Jan. 30 
1781, 93 Susan b Aug 10 1790 w of Eli Halsey, 94 
Jared b March 25 1793, 95 Lewis b Aug 14 1796, 
and 96 Phebe b July 4 1785. 85 Stephen had w 



FAMILY RRfORDS. 279 

Sarah and ch. 97 S<)i)hia w of Henry Rhodes, 98 
Sarah \v of James Larry, 99 Emeline w of James 
Rhodes, 100 Elizabeth w of Hervey Cook, lOi 

Mary w of Isham, and 102 Dr. William N. 

87 Merit had ch. Mary and James, who had ch. El- 
len w of Charles S. Halsey and Clara. 88 Age, 94 
Jared and 95 Lewis removed west. 72 Benjamin 
had s 103 Benjamin, who hadch. 104 Benjamin, 105 
James, (who had s Oliver) 106 Zephaniah b 1762 d 
184(.) and 107 David. 104 Benjamin had ch. 108 
Uriah, (who has eh. Horatio and John of B. Hamp- 
ton) and 109 Daniel. 107 David had eh. 110 
Stephen, HI Frank and 112 Malbey. 110 Stephen 
had s 113 David, who had s Stephen of Bridge 
Hampton. 29 David had s 114 Oliver, who had ch. 
David and Edward, (all of Littleworth.) 28 Stej)hen 
went to England, taking up his residence in London, 
and was ap[)ointed High Sheriff of that city. He 
was said to have been the handsomest man of his 
age, and a small miniature portrait of him taken 
while he was in collei^e, well confirms this statement. 
Thompson in Hist, of L. I., 2nd ed., has written 
more at length on his career. 51 Silas had besides 
Rev. William N. a s Ezekiel. 64 Joseph is known 
to be the grandson of 4 Joseph, but the name of 
his father is not certainly ascertained, though there 
is reason to think it was Isaac. 

SCOTT FAMILY. 

John Scott came from Hartford Ct., to South- 
ampton, between 1657 and 1667. He settled in 
North Sea where some of his descendants have ever 



280 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

since resided. An old English cnstoni is observed 
by 4 Jekomirih who beiure the delivery of a deed of 
gift of land to his son Jackson, first gives him a turf 
nnd twig off of the premises. 1 John had ch. 2 
Jekomiah and 3 John, 2 Jekomiah had s 4 
Jekomiali b 1663 d 1749, who had eh. 5 Jackson, 6 
John, 7 Lazanis, 8 Jekomiah, 9 Deborah, U) Thomas, 
11 Mary, 12 Sarah and 13 Anne. 5 Jackson had 
ch. 14 Jackson, b 1757 d 1842, 15 Matthew, 16 
James, 17 John, (who moved to Orange Co. N. Y.) 
and 18 iSamuel. 14 Jackson had w Susana and s 

19 James, who had s Samuel. 15 Matthew had s 

20 Lewis, who had ch. Walter, Henry and John. 16 
James had ch. Sarah w of Hervey Harris, and Mary 
w of Edward Sayre. 

SQUIRES FAMILY. 
Ellis Squires, the first of this name in the town, 
came and settled in what is now called Squiretown, 
then a wilderness, about the time of the Revolu- 
tionary war. His gr, son Jeremiah moved to South-* 
ampton, and settled at Wickapogue. 1 Ellis had 
sons 2 Ellis, 3 Seth and 4 Daniel. 2 Ellis had sons 
5 Barnabas, 6 Zachariah R., 7 Jeremiah, 8 Lewis, 9 
Jetur and 10 Warren. 7 Jeremiah has ch. Edwin, 
Sophronia w of .fetur White, Lucilla and Hampton. 

3 Seth had sons 1 1 Nicholas, 12 Alvin and 13 Seth. 

4 Daniel had sons 14 Ellis and 15 Daniel. 

STANSBROUGH FAMILY. 
1 Josiah Stanboro\igh, or Stanbrough, or Stans- 
brough, as it is variously written, was an inhabitant 
of Lynn in 1637, and was made freeman in South- 



FAMILY REC0UD8. 281 

amptoD iu 1647. In 1638 he has 100 acres of land 
in Lynn. He died at his residence in Sagg abt)Ut 
1661, leaving 2d W Alee or Alice, and ch, 2 Jusiah 
and 3 Peregrine, and four small children by his 2d 
w Alice. 2 Josiah ni Admah Chatfield July 24 
1670, and had ch. 4 Kecompence b Aug 22 1672, 5 
Frances b April 4 1675, 6 Josiah b June 22 1677, 7 
Hannah b July 1 1679, 8 Phebe b Sept 17 1681, 9 
Zeriah b Oct i 1683, and 10 Adonijah b March 18, 
1687. 3 Deac. Peregrine b 1640 d 1701 m Sarah 
James Dec 15 1664, and had ch. 11 John b Dec 11 
1665, 12 Ruth b June 4 1668, 13 Olive b July 18, 
1670, 14 Mary b Oct 14 1672, 15 Hannah b Jan 28 
1674, 16 Sarah b May 26 1677, 17 James b Oct. 
28 1679, 18 Eunice b Nov 8 1682, and 19 Elizabeth 
b Jan 24 1686. 17 James had w Sarah. In 1753 
John, (perhaps 11 John) wills to ch. John, James, 
Hannah, Martha, Sarah, Abigail and Mary. James 
was not then of age, but apjiears to be near it. 

STEPHENS FAMILY. 

It is not known when Capt. Thomas Stephens, 
the first of this family, first came to Southampton. 
He was buried in the Southend l)urying ground. 
None of the family now reside in the village, though 
some of his descendants are living in the west*^rn 
part of the town. 6 Josiah removed to East Hamp- 
ton, and tliere remained till his death. 7 Thomas 
moved to Quogue. 1 Capt. Thomas b 1650 d 1701, 
had w Elizabeth Cook m Oct 20 1675, and ch. 2 
Thomas b Jan 28 1677, 3 Hester b Feb 28 1679, 
4 Phebe b Jan 2 1682, 5 William b Apr 4 1684, 
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284 HISTORY OF (SOUTHAMPTON. 

made Oct 20 1666, at Milford, for his marriage with 
Mary, widow of Timothy Baldwin, is by her referred 
to ten years later when she was disposing of her 
proper I y, in conformity with said contract to her 
children. He had before 1678 made Lydia the 
widow of John Wilford his third wife, and for the 
residue of his days lived at Brandtord, where, Oct 
5 1686, he gave by deed to his sons Elnathan and 
James at Southampton, all his lands in the latter 
place ; to d Mary Quinney, (or some such name) 
ten cows ; to d Martha Herrick £10, in addition to 
what she had already received, to be paid by the 
sons, who then had the keeping of the cows also. 
His widow in 1688 transacted business with those 
sons and died Nov 1694." 

From the Southampton Records it is clear that 
the Thomas Topping mentioned by Savage resided 
several years in Southampton, then removed to 
Branford, and there remained till his death. 

Capt Thomas the first settler gave his son 5 Capt. 
Thomas his homestead at the south end. The latter 
dies in 1682, and in 1683 Capt. Thomas of Branford 
confirms the gift of the same to Thomas, oldest son 
of 5 Capt. Thomas. 

Burke gives the arms of an English family of 
Toppings, as follows : Azure, ten lozenges, four, 
three, two, one argent — crest. Two lion's gambs, 
sable holding up a roundel vair. 

1 Capt. Thomas d 1688, had ch. 2 Elnathan b 
1640 d 1705, 3 James b 1642 or 3, 4 John b 1646 
d 1696, and 5 Capt. Thomas. 2 Elnathan had w 
Mary and ch. 6 Elnathan b Aug 20 1664, 7 Abigail 



FAMILY RRCORDS. 285 

b Jaa 17 1667, 8 Mary b Nov 18 1670. 9 Meheta- 
bel b June 27 1765, 10 Capt Stephen b Sept 24 
1679, and 11 Sylvanus b March 8 1682. 6 Elnathan 
had 8 whose name is unknown, who had s 12 Job 
b 1760 d 1834, who had w Martha and ch. 13 
Luther, 14 James and 15 Ira. 13 Luther had ch, 
Hiram of Sag Harbor and Edwin. 10 Capt. Ste- 
phen d 1746, and had w Hannah and ch. 16 David 
and 17 Stephen. 16 David b 1716 d 1796, had 1st 
w Phebe and 2nd w Jane and ch. 18 David b 1748 
d 1834, and 19 Matthew b 1753 d 1837. 18 David 
had w Rebecca and s Rensaeler, who had s Sidney 
B. 19 Matthew had w Jane and ch. 20 Abraham, 
(who removed) 21 Jos. Warren of Brookhaven, 22 
David of Orange Co. N. Y., 23 Gardiner B., (who 
has 8 Addison G.) 24 Eliphalet of Ohio, and 25 
Nathaniel, M. D., who has ch. Rob. Emmet, Clar- 
ence, Mary and Ellen. 17 Stephen had ch. 26 Ste- 
phen, 27 Charles, 28 Henry b 1750 d 18 12, 29 Paul 
and 30 Jeremiah. 26 Stephen had ch. 31 Stephen, 
(who had ch. James M. of Sagg, Henry, Theodore 
and Stejihen) and 32 Nathan. 28 Henry had w 
Mary and ch. 33 Henry b 1777 d 1851, 34 Paul, 
[who had d Laura w of Hervey Hedges] 35 Josiah, 
36 Charles, [who had s Chas. Henry] and 37 Her- 
vey. 33 Henry had w Mehetabel and ch. Sophronia 
w of David Burnett, and Jane w of Stephen D. 
Wood. 37 Hwrvey had s James H., who had ch. 
Morgan H. and Harriet. 30 Jeremiali had s H<?rvey 
of Southampton, who had ch. Edwai d and Harriet 
w of William McCorkell. 11 Sylvanus had ch. 38 
Ethan and 39 Svlvanus, who had « Sylvanus. 38 
44 



286 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Ethan had ch. 40 Shadrach, 41 Jesse, 42 Charles^ 
[who removed] 43 James, [who had s Stephen of 
Sag Harbor] and 44 Stephen. 41 Jesse had ch. 45 
George S. [who had ch. George S. and James M.] 
and 46 Charles C, who had s Charles C. 3 James 
had son 47 James b Nov 1 1670, who had ch. Heze- 
kiah and Charles. 4 John had w Deborah and ch. 
48 Capt. Josiah b 1663 d 1726, 49 John, 50 Zerub- 
babel and 51 Ephraim. 48 Capt. Josiah had w 
Hannah and ch. 52 Deac. Josiah, [who had s Thomas] 
and 53 John b 1706 d 1747. 5 Capt. Thomas had 
w Hannah and <;h. 54 Thomas b Feb 11 1660, 55 
Rachel b April 19 1663, 56 Ann b June 9 1666, 57 
Hester b April 16 1671, 58 Joseph b June 30 1674, 
59 Daniel b Aug 19 1676, and 60 Edward b Feb 
9 1678. One of these sons of 5 Thomas had s 61 
Deac. Thomas, who had s 62 Edward, who had ch. 
63 Stephen b 1764 d 1840, 64 George and 65 Abra- 
ham, [who had ch. Elisha, S. Howell and Jones.] 63 
Stephen had ch. 66 Edward, [who has s Eugene] 
and 67 Alanson. 

WHITE FAMILY. 
Two families of this name came to Southampton, 
the first, that of John White, about 1644. He was 
a resident of Lynn in 1630, freeman there in 1633, 
and made freeman in Southampton in 1647. The 
other family descended from the seventh pastor of 
the church. Rev. Sylvanus White, who was the son 
of Rev. Ebenezer White, of Bridge Hampton. Both 
of these families, however, are said to have a com- 
mon ancestor, Thomas White of Weymouth, Mass. 
He was Representative in Gen. Court in 1636 and 



FAMILY KECORPS. 287 

37. He (lied Aug 1 679, lea vino;, according to Far- 
mer. Ist Josepli of Mendon ; 2 Samuel V> 1642, ad- 
mitted freeman 1666, Representative 1679, and 
died without issue, 3d Thomas of Braintree, 4th 
Hannah, who m John Baxter, and 5th Ebene/er b 
1648, and died Aug 24 1703. John, the tirst of 
this nanu' in Southampton, is thought to be another 
son of Thomas of Weymouth, not being mentioned 
in his will because he died in 1662 before his father. 
(But the fact that John was here, a man, in 1644, 
would rather show that if related at all, he was a 
brother or cousin of Thomas of Weymouth, es- 
pecially since the children of both were of about 
the same age.) Ebenezer, the 5th ch. of Thomas, 
was the father of Rev. Ebenezer of Bridge Hampton. 
I John d 1662, had w Ann and ch. 2 John, 3 
Martha w of John Howell, 4 Esther w of Samuel 
Clark, 5 Sarah, 6 Hannah, 7 Abigail and 8 James. 
2 John of Huntington, L. I., had w Hannah and s 
9 John of Elizabeth N. J. 8 James m Ruth Strat- 
ton Nov 24 1675, and had ch. 10 Capt. Ephraim b 
Dec 29 1677 d 1752, 11 James b May 15 1681 and 
12 Stephen b Oct 13 1684. 10 Capt. Ephraim had 
ch. 13 John, 14 Eber and 15 William. 13 John 
had w Jerusha and son 16 John who had ch. 17 
Ephraim, 18 Deac. John and 19 George. 17 
Eyhraim had ch. 20 John, (who had ch. John F. and 
William) and 21 Nathan, (who had ch. Susan, 
Mary, Albert, Jetur, Eleanor and Harriet.) 18 
Deac. John had ch. 22 Harriet w of Joseph R. 
Harris, 23 Charles, (who has ch. Elnathan and 
others) 24 Jane w of Lafayette Douglas, 25 Ann w 



288 HIBTOBT or SOtTTSAIffPTON. 

of Win, H. Post, and 26 Martha w of James R. 
Huntting. 19 George had ch. 27 Stephen, (who 
had ch. William and Charles) and 28 George, who 
m Betsey d of Daniel Fordham, and has ch. Eliza- 
beth and others. 

14 Eber had ch. Ephraim, Stephen, MemucaD and 
Peter. 15 William had ch. 29 William and 30 
Elias. 29 William had ch. 31 Oliver, (who had s 
Nicholas) 32 Jeremiah, 33 David, (who had ch. 
Eliza and others) and 34 Sylvanus, (who has s Eli, 
who has ch. Sarah and others.) 30 Elias had s 35 
Edward, who had ch. Edward, Jane, Emma, Elias 
H. and Hubert. 11 James had ch. 36 Ebenezer b 
1711 d 1783, and 37 Charles b 1716 d 1791. 36 
Ebenezer had w Mehetabel and s 38 Major James b 
1746 d 1807, who had ch. 39 James b 1777 d 1858, 
and 40 Silas b 1776 d 1856, who had w Abigail and 
ch. Mary w of D. Rogers Rose and others. 39 
James had w Phebe and ch. Darius and Peter H. 
^nd daughters. 40 Rev. Ebenezer of B. Hampton 
b 1673 d 1756 had w Hannah and ch. 41 Deac. El- 
nathan b 1 695 d 1773. 42 James, 43 Rev. Sylvanus 
b 1704 d 1782 and 44 Silas b 1710 d 1742. 41 
Deac. Elnathan had s 45 Ebenezer b 1723 d 1802, 
who had ch. 46 Silas b 1748 d 1815, 47 Samuel, 48 
Henry, M. D., who remov»'d and died in Goshen, N. 
Y. 49 Elnathan, 50 John, 51 Rufus, (who had ch. 
David, Samuel, Henry and George) and 52 Sarah w 
of Elihu Howell. 46 Silas had w Mary and ch. 53 
Silas and 54 El>enezer b 1782 d 1855, (who had ch. 
Alonzo, Silas and Edward.) 53 Silas had ch. 55 
Josiah, (who had ch. Malbey and William) 5Q Har- 



KAMJLY UKCOKOS. 289 

1 let aiul 57 Clarissa, 47 Samuel had ch, Samuel 
and Milton. 50 Jolm had ch. 58 Dr. Howell, 59 
Elnathan, 60 Henry, (who has ch. Al)igail w of 
(leorge Hand of E. Hampton, George, Benjamin, 
Alfred, Sarsh and John E.) and 61 Charity. 43 
Kev. Sylvanus had w Phebe and ch, 62 Sylvanus, 
63 Silas, 64 Edward, 65 Hezekiah, 66 Daniel, 67 
Ebenezer, and 68 Dr. Henry. All of these ch. re- 
moved, except Dr. Henry, and their genealogy has 
been contributed by Dr. Oliver White of New York 
City, as follows : 

DESCENDANTS OF REV. SYLVANUS WHITE, 

COSTRIBlTEn BY O. WHITK, M. P. 

Rev'd Sylvanus White, second son of the Rev'd 
Ebenezer White of Bridgehampton, L(jng Island, 
was born in 1704 — went to Weymouth, Mass., in 
1715 to attend a classical scliool. Entered Harvard 
College 1719, and graduated in 1723. Assumed the 
pastoral charge of the church at Southampton 1727, 
which he retained for nearly 55 years ; when after 
an illness of seven days he died October 22d, 
1782. 

Soon after his ordination he married Phebe How- 
ell, only daughter of Hezekiah Howell, by whom he 
had nine children, viz : Sylvanus, Edward, Heze- 
kiah, Daniel, Silas, Phebe, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, and 
Henry. Except the first Ebenezer, who died in in- 
fancy, they all lived to adult years. 

Sylvanus, the eldest son of Rev'd Sylvanus, mar- 
ried Eunice Herrick of Southampton, removed to 
Orange County, N. Y., where he died, leaving four 
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290 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

children, Phebf, Sylvanus, Eunice and Nathan H. 
The parents of these children lived to an advanced 
age, and have many descendants, some of whom have 
have attained to political distinction in the councils 
of the nation from the westein part of the Union, 
where they had pieviously settled. 

Frf»m Lanman's Dictionary of Con«;ress the fol- 
lowing is taken concerning Albert S. the son of Na- 
than H., grandson of Sylvanus of Orange Co. N. Y., 
and gr. grandson of Rev. Sylvanus of Southampton. 

" Albert H. White was born in Orange ('ounty, 
N. Y., October 24th, 1803 ; graduated at Union 
College, 1822 ; admitted to the Bar, 1825 ; removed 
to Indiana in 1829 ; was representative in Congress 
from that State from 1837 to 1839 ; then U. 8. Senator 
from 1839 to 1845. Was again elected Representa- 
tive from Indiana to to the Thirty Seventh Congress, 
serving; as a member of the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, and Chairman of a Select Committee on 
Emancipation. 

After leaving Congress he was appointed by Pres- 
ident Lincoln a Commissioner to adjust certain In- 
dian claims, and in January, 1864, appointed by the 
President, Judge of the District Court of Indiana, 
He died in Stockwell, Indiana, September, 1864. 

Edward, second son of Rev'd Sylvanus, married 
Hannah daughter of Francis Pelletreau. They 
lived together ten years in Orange County, N. Y., 
when he died, June, 1767, aged thirty-six years, 
leaving four children, whose names were Hannah, 
Edward, Mary and Phebe. 

Hezekiahj third son of Rev'd Silvanus, married 



FAMILY RECORDS. 291 

Abigail 8ayre of Bridge Hampton, and settled also 
in Orange County, where he died, leaving six chil- 
dren, whose names we have not been able to obtain. 

Daniel, fourth son of Rev'd Sylvanus, was a 
])hysician, settled in the town of Westchester and 
County of Westchester, N. Y., married Euphemia 
Bartow of New Rochelle. He died in 1781. His 
widow died a few years after him, leaving two sons 
Hud four daughters, viz : Phebe, Bethsheba,--' Ma- 
tilda, Daniel, Euphemia and Theophilus. 

Silas, fifth aon of Rev'd Sylvanus, married Sarah 
Newson, and removed to Orange Co., N. Y. Five 
children survived him and his wife — viz : James T., 
Silas, Levi, Harriet and Robert. They have many 
descendants in the City of Ne\T York and vicinity. 
Prominent among these are tlie children of Levi, 
who married Ellen Cox, both of whom are dead. 
Their children are Adelia, Elvira, Charles, George, 
Robert, Harriet and Elenora, who are all married 
and have families of children. 

Phebe, only daughter of Rev'd Sylvanus, married 
James Tiley of Hartford, Conn. She died without 
issue, four days after her father. 

Ebenezer, sixth son of Rev'd Sylvanus, died in 
infancy. 

Ebenezer, seventh son of Rev'd Sylvanus, after 
being instructed in the classics by his father, (a 
graduate of Harvard College,) commenced the study 
I of medicine, availing himself of all the facilities 
existing in our country at that time, for acquiring a 
thorough knowledge of the profession of his choice. 

* Married Don Joseph Bamubeau, Spanish Consul General. 



292 HISTORY OF SOUTH AMPTOX. 

He soon collected a library of all the then repre- 
sentative works in every branch of his profession. 
Many of these volumes of the writings of the 
fathers in medicine are now in the possession of 
such of his descendants as are medical men, by 
whom they are j)rized as mementos and heirlooms 
of their venerated ancestor. 

In early life he married Helena, dauohter of 
Theophilus Bartow, of New Rochelle, and grand 
daughter of Rev'd John Bartow, of Westchester, 
and great grand daughter of Gen. Bartow wlio tied 
from France to England in 1685.* This marriage 
was a Union of Puritan with Huguenot. The 
young coujjle commenced life together whei'e 
they ended it, in Yorktown, Westchester County, 
N. Y. The doctor soon acquired an extensive prac- 
tice, and engaged in the cultivation of a large farm. 

Here — on what afterwards became " the neutral 
ground," the commencement of the war of the Rev- 
olution found him. From the first of this protracted 
and gloriously ending struggle, to the end, he was 
the zealous nncompromising advocate of his coun- 
try's cause ; and many Avere the adventures and 
thrilling incidents he would relate to his listening 
grandchildren of Tory raids and persecutions, only 
exceeded in atrocity by the robberies, cruelties and 
murders of the Cow Boys and Skinners. Many of 
the wounds received in these forays came under his 
professional care and treatment.^ 

Bolton in his history of Westchester County, Vol. 
II, ])age 384, relates one of the many incidents in 

* On the revocation of the edict of Nantes. 

t Vide Dr. Thutcher's Military Journal— Boston 1823— page 307. 



FAMILY RECORDS, 20.') 

Dr. Wliitt-'s exi»erienee diiriTi^- tlu- war in the fol- 
lowing- languaj^t* : 

" Dochtr White of Yorktowii, througli the wjiole 
of the Revolution, sustained the characti r of a 
jtatriot, with that devotion and iirmness whicli 
eharact«'rized the many at that eventful period of 
our liistory. It appears that the enemy made sev- 
eral unsuceessful attempts to capture this distin- 
guished individual. On one oeeasion th(\v were de- 
sirious of exchanging the <loetor for a British sur- 
geon then in the hands af the Americans. To 
tffect his sur})risal, a large i)arty of Liglit Horse 
were despatched to Cromi»ond, with strict orders to 
surround his dwelling and make him pris(>ner. Son)e 
kind friend, howeviM-, gave the doctor timely warn- 
ing, wliich enahled him to escape. As a substitute 
they seized upon Dr. James Brewer, who re- 
sided in that immeiliate neighborhood, and were 
proceeding home with their prisoner, when, passing- 
through Stoney Street, they were fired upon by a 
})arty of Americans who lay concealed behind the 
fences. Dr. Brewer received a mortal wound aud 
expired the next morning, Nov. 20th, 1780, in the 
arms of Dr. White, who had thus narrowly escaped 
the melancholy fate of his friend." 

Dr. White's persistent and devoted patriotism 
throughout the struggle for our national independ- 
ence, was appreciated by the people of his part of 
the State, and they honored him by an election to 
the State Senate, soon after the subversion of the 
Colonial Government, aud afterwards by electing 
him Presidential Elector. 



294 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMI'TON. 

Aft«jr more than half a century's successful prac- 
tice of his })rolession, and as many years j^iven to 
the service of his Divine Master, the aoeil ]»atriot, 
" the beloved physician," and the christian gentle- 
man, sle])t Avith his fathers. Born in Southampton 
in 1746, he died in Yorktown, 1827. His wiilpw^ 
survived him a few years. They had a family of 
one daughter and six sons, viz : Catherine, Bartow, 
Ebenezer, Henry, Lewis, James and Tlieodnsius. 

Catherine, the only daughter and eldest child of 
Dr. Ebenezer of Yorktown, married Dr. Samuel 
Strang, a pni>il of her father. They tonk uj) their 
residence in the village of Peekskill, vvliere Dr. 
Strang practised his profession during his life-tiu)e. 
A numerous family of children survived Doctor and 
Mrs. Strang, but since the loss of their ])arents, 
death has made sad inroads amongst them, viz : Jo- 
seph W.,* (lawyer,) Catherine,* Emeline,"' Samuel 
B,--' Antoinette,* Louisa,* Eugene J.,* (physician,) 
Theodosius, Stephen B. and Edward J. 

Bartow, the first son of Dr. Ebenezer, of Y\>rk- 
town, was educated for a physician. He married Miss 
Ann Schenck after having established himself in prac- 
tice at Fishkill, N. Y., with whom he lived in un- 
interrupted harmony until her death, in 18G1. 

Concerning this dignified and courteous gentle- 
man, we make the following extracts from a memoir 
of him, by the late Sylvester D. Willard, M. D., of 
Albany. 

" Dr. (Bartow) White was an active practitioner 
for a period of forty-five years. He was called to 
* Deceased. 



FAMILY KECOUn.S. 295 

t'xercist' his vocation over an extensive district, mak- 
ing tlie <listances, as did all the pioneers in our pro- 
fession, without reference to day or night, or to that 
which contributed to personal comfort. He gained 
the reputation of a skillful practitioner, and his 
counsel was frequently solicited by his professiona 
Itrethren. It drew around hini young men who con- 
templated entering the profession. He became their 
teacher. Among his pujjils Corneliu.s Depew and 
8te})hen Rapalye became surgeons in the Navy, 
while John Coo])er and Isaac Van Vt>rkies entered 
the Army. Others settled in varictus parts of this 
State. The number and their position indicate his 
ability as a teacher, and his influence in inspiring 
his pupils with high and 'honorable sentiments. 
Home of them preceded him to the grave, while 
several survive to testify to his faith lulness as a 
teacher and friend." 

"In 1824, Dr. White was elected to rei)resent 
his district in the Congress of the United States. 
In 1840 he was chosen one of the Presidential 
Electors of the State. He received the honorary 
degree of Doctor of Mc^liciue, from the Regents of 
the University in 1845, and was elected a permanent 
member of the Medical Societv of the State of New 
in 1851." 

" Dr. White was systematic in his habits, and 
-strictly temperate. His manners were mild and ur- 
bane in every class of society. He was a sincere 
friend of the poor." 

"At the age of seventy-eight he comnnaiced a 
laily Journal, noting the incidents of each day and 



206 HISTOID Y OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

the .stnte of the weather. This habit — lemarkable 
tor one to begin in advanced life — he continued for 
eight years, and until a few days previous to his 
death. The ev(Miing of Dr. White's life was })assed 
in a beatitiful s<nenity, surrounded })y every comfort, 
and every want anticipated by loving friends, while 
his exemplary christian life was crowned by the 
christian's hojx^ of a glorious immortality. He was 
seized with paralysis on the 5th of December, 18t)2, 
and died on the 10th inst., at the advance<l age of 
86 years. Dr. (Bartow) White was the father of 
twelve children, nine daughters and three sons. All 
the daughters and one son survive him." 

" Born amidst the stirring events of 1776, he 
grew up a twin child of Liberty. Love of country 
was a princi})le with him as strong as life, and 
patriotism a feeling which only death could extin- 
guish." * 

The names of the children surviving Dr. Bartow 
White and his wife, are : Helena, Catherine, Matil- 
da, Evelina, Louis B., Anna, Harriet, Mary, Octa- 
via and Novenia. 

Ebenezer, the second son of Dr. Ebenezer, of 
Yorktown, also made choice of the arduous profes- 
sion of his ftither as the pursuit of his life. He 
was the pupil of his father, and finished his studies 
by attending medical lectures in the city of New York. 

After completing his professional education, he 
married Amy, daughter of the late Samuel Green of 
the town of Somers, Westchester County. 

* Vol. of TranBactions of Med. Society of the State of N. Y., 
for 1863. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 297 

He purchased a farni near the villaoe of Somers, 
and commenced the i)ractice of liis profession soon 
after he had attained his majority. Ab.^temious, en- 
ergetic, a lover of the right and an earnest laborer for 
the good of the community, here he passed a long, 
active and useful life, uniformly opposing every im- 
mortality, and carefully protecting his largo family 
of children from the vicious and irreligious influ- 
ences by which they were surrounded. 

To the sick poor he was ever assidious in his at- 
tentions, and during the last few years of his life 
they were almost his only patients. 

Of this venerable doctor and devout christian, we 
find an editorial obituary, in the " Highland Demo- 
crat," which we transcribe for these pages. 

" Dr. Ebenezer White — on Saturday night, March 
18th, (1865) — the subject of this brief notice, was 
struck with paralysis, and on Monrlay night follow- 
ing, died, having attained the advanced age of 
eighty-five years." 

" He had practised as a physician in the town of 
Somers, where he always lived and where he died, 
more than sixty years, and only during the last two 
or three years did he claim exemption from the 
heavy cares and duties of his profession. His mind 
was clear and vigorous until the last fatal attack." 

" As a physician. Dr. W. enjoyed the respect of 
the profession, and the confidence of the people 
among whom, for more than sixty years, he labored 
to alleviate suftering and arrest death." 

" As a man, he was conscientious and honest, as a 
neighbor kind and obliging, as a christian, consistent 
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298 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

and faithful to all the duties of that high profession, 
so far as man can judge. 

" Twice only, we believe, he held public otlice. 
About thirty-six years ago he tilled, with credit to 
himself, and satisfaction to the people, the office of 
SiuTogate of Westchester County, and, at least, 
once represented this country in the State Legisla- 
ture." 

" Three sons survive and adorn the profession 
which their father so long followed, besides two 
others who pursue different callings. Two daughters 
only survive." 

" In politics Dr. White was republican, in v^- 
ligion a presbyterian, in theory and practice an ar- 
dent temperance man. His death will create a void 
in the church of which he was the chief supportei', 
and for fifty five years an honored memlier, and in 
the social circle where he was universally beloved. 
Many will mourn the loss of a friend— few if any, 
have any enmities to bury with him." '■'' 

Dr. Ebenezer of Somers, sui-vived his wife a little 
over four years. They had children Bartow F,, a 
physician, who married Ann Augusta, youngest 
daughter of the late Dr, Elisha Belcher of Round 
Hill, Greenwich, Conn., where he now resides, hav- 
ing succeeded Dr. Belcher in his practice. He has 
three children, viz : Stephen, Alethea and Elisha, 

Dr. Bartow F, was for many years greatly occu- 
pied with an extensive practice, and has thiee times 
represented his district in the Legislatine of his 
State. 
•Highland l>emocTa4. — Peekskill, April Isk, I860. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 299 

Stephen Gr., second son of Dr. Ebenezer of Somers, 
was a merchant, and died at the early age of twenty 
tliree years, unmarried. 

Helen A., eldest daughter of Dr. Ebenezer, of 
Somers, married James Brett, farmer, of Fishkill. 
They have an interesting family of seven daughterH 
living, viz : Elizabeth, Sarah, Olivia, Phebe, Mary, 
Helen and Louisine. 

Lewis H., third son of Dr. Ebenezer, of Somers, 
succeeded his uncle, Bartow, at Fishkill, in the 
practice of his profession — that of a physician— 
where he is now living and laboring. He married 
Helena, daughter of John 0. Van Wyck, of Fish- 
kill, and has two children, Howell and Catherine. 

Oliver, fourth son of Dr. Ebenezer, of Somers, is 
a practicing physician in the city of New York. He 
is unmarried, but has an adopted daughter in th?; 
person of Miss Jane C. Kerr. 

Phebe, second daughter and sixth child of Dr. 
Ebenezer of Someis, married Robert Calhoun. 
Both are dead and without issue. 

John P., fifth son of Dr. Ebenezer, of Somers, 
is a merchant, living in New York, where he mar- 
ried Margaret, daughter of the late David BrvBon 
of that city. They have no children. 

Euphemia, third daughter of Dr. Ebenezer, of 
Somers, married James W. Bedell, of Somers, 
farmer. They have children, William N,, (law- 
yer,) Helen, Anna, Bartow, Phebe, Margaret and 
Amy. 

Samuel, sixth soil of Dr. Ebenezer, of Somers, 
and his youngest child, is a farmer, and unmarried. 



300 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

He occupies tlie farm and residence of his late 
father. 

To revert to the children of Dr. Ehenezer of Yorktotvn. 

Henry, third son of Dr. Ebenezer, of Yorktown, 
was also a j)hysieian, and practised his profession in 
his native town. He married for his tirst wife, 
Sarah, daughter of the late Kev'd Silas Constant, 
of Yorktown. She lived but a few months, and 
was buried in her bridal costume. Dr. H. then 
married for his second wife, Mary, widow of Dr. 
Stephen Fowler of New Castle, and daughter of Dr. 
Elisha Belcher of Greenwich, Conn. Dr. Henry 
was for several years Surrogate of his county (an 
office his brother Ebenezer .ilso held,) and in 1823 
became one of the Judges of the County Court. He 
devoted much of his time to the different religious 
and philanthropic societies of his day, and died 
November, 1857, aged 76 years. His widow is still 
living — By neither of his wives did he have any 
children, but adopted a son and daughter of his 
brother Lewis viz : Constant and Elizabeth. 

Lewis, fourth son of Dr. Ebenezer, of Yorktown, 
was a farmer. He married Aurelia Raymond, of 
Dutchess County, byVhom he had a family of twelve 
children living at the time of his death, viz : 
Frederick, Sarah, Mary, Helena,* Ebenezer, Cathe- 
rine, Elizabeth, Constant, Stephen G., Aurelia, 
Lewis A. and John R. He died at Peoria, Illinois, 
in 1836, whither he had gone on business, aged 54 
years, a most amiable man and a lovely christian 
character. His widow still survives. 
* Deceased. 



p 



FAMILY RECORDS. 301 

James, fifth son of Dr. Ebenezer, of Yorktown, a 
fanner, married Sarah Bedell, of Somers. These 
kind and affectionate parents died, leaving five chil- 
dren, viz : William B., Elizabeth, Mary, Alvira, 
and Bartow.* 

Theodosius, sixth son and last child of Dr. Eb- 
enezer, of Yorktown, and the only one of his chil- 
dren now living, resides in the mansion and culti- 
vates the farm of his father. He married Philena 
Wright, of Somers, who died a few years since. 
Their children are Henry, Emeline, Josephus, and 
Louisa. 

Having finished the record — as far as possible — 
of llie Descendants of Ebenezer, seventh son of the 
Rev'd Sylvanus White, of Southampton, we con- 
clude with Doctor Henry White, of Southampton, 
the eighth son and youngest child of his father, 
Rev'd Sylvanus White. He lived until he attained 
the advanced age of ninety-one years, when he died 
December 20th, 1840. Although so aged, his sight 
was perfectly clear, and unimpaired till his death, 
never requiring the use of spectacles. He was a surgeon 
in the army of the Revolution, and at one time a pris- 
oner on board the Jersey prison ship at Brooklyn. 

He married for his first wife a daughter of the 
Rev'd Nathaniel Eells, of Middletown, Conn. After 
her death he married Miss Ann Stephens, by whom 
he had three children, that lived to adult years, 
viz : Hannah E., Sylvanus and Phebe. The two 
daughters were the wives of Capt. J. Parker. The 
son Sylvanus married Jane, daughter of Samuel 
Jagger, and had children Henry K. and Theodore S. 

47 * Deceased. 



302 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

Errata. — la the last article, page 297, line 7, the word im- 
morality is incorrectly printed, 'immortality," also, page 298, line 
7, "country" should have been printed County. 

WICK FAMILY. 

John Wick, the first of this name, is first men- 
tioned in 1693. He lived first in Southampton, 
then moved to Bridge Hampton, where he died, 1 
John b 1661 d 1719, had s 2 Job, who had ch. 3 
William, 4 Zebulon, b 1748 d 1809, 5 Henry and 
6 Lemuel. 4 Zebulon had w Mary and ch. 7 Lu- 
cretia, 8 William b 1793, 9 Lemuel, 10 Susana and 
11 Elizabeth. 8 William had w Milicent Pierson, 
and ch. Philetus, Lemuel and William. 

It is possible that 2 Job was son of Job, who was 
s of John, though the records make it probable that 
the first record given is correct. 

The epitaph of John Wick reads as follows : 

Here | was layed | the Body of Mr j John Wick 
Esq I Who Dyed Jan vary | the 16th anno 1719 | 
In the 59tli year | of his age. 

The stone is in the centre of a six or eight acre 
lot, in Bridge Hampton. The tradition is that he 
gave direction to have his body laid here, but his 
friends disregarded it and attempted to dig a grave 
in the grave yard, but the ants came out in such 
swarms, and filled the grave as they dug, that they 
were compelled to abandon their purpose. Another 
tradition says that the heirs not liking the disposi- 
tion of the property made in the will, read a sum- 
mons over his grave, calling him to a})pear in court, 
and show cause why the will should not be broken. 
He was a magistrate and a man of note, in his day 
and generation. 



FAMILY RF.CORDS. 303 

WILLMAN FAMILY. 

Isaac Willman, first mentioned in 1649, had w 

Mary and ch. Isaac Jr. b Aug 31 1657, Abraham, 

Matthew, John b May 18 1670, Theophilus and 

Benjamin. Isaac Jr. m Mary Wines, of Southold, 

Oct 7 1686, and had ch. Mary b Dec 9 1689, and 

Abraham. The family did' remain in the town 

' (•■■'- 

probably much later than the year 1700, and there 

are none now of this name residing in Southampton. 

WOODRUFF FAMILY. 

John Woodruff is first mentioned in the list of 
1657. His son John was the adopted son of John 
Oosmer, and lived on the late residence of Mr. Charles 
Pelletreau. It does not appear that he had more 
than one son. Of his grand children, Benjamin 
lived in Southampton, and his three sons removed 
to Bridge Ham})ton, — of the other three ch. of John, 
viz., Samuel, Nathaniel and Isaac, I know nothing, 
except they are mentioned as young men residing in 
Southampton. They either removed, or died with- 
out issue. 

1 John had s 2 John, who had ch. 3 Samuel, 4 
Benjamin, 5 Nathaniel, 6 Isaac and 7 Sarah b Jan 
20 1660. 4 Benjamin had ch. 8 Daniel, 9 David 
and 10 Timothy. 8 Daniel had ch. 11 Benjamin 
and 12 John. 11 Benjamin had ch. 13 Job 
b 1776, d 1857, 14 Jesse b 1765 d 1857, and 15 
Elisha who had s Jesse. 9 David had ch. 16 
David and 17 Joshua. 16 David had ch. James, 
Sylvester, who removed, and Ilalsey. 10 Tim- 
othy had ch. 18 Silas, 19 Lemuel and 20 Daniel. 
18 Silas had ch. 21 Elias, who removed to Platsburg, 
N. Y., 22 Silas and 23 Joseph, who went to Orange 
Co. N. Y. 22 Silas had ch. 24 Elias, who has s 



804 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 

Silas and 25 Mary w of Abraham Halsey. 20 Dan- 
iel had ch. 26 Daniel and 27 Abigail, 26 Daniel 
had ch, 28 Herman, 29 Samnel, who has s Sam- 
uel and 30 Daniel. 

WOOLLEY FAMILY. 

Kobert Woolley, the first of this name, is first 
mentioned in the list of 1657, Savage, in Gen. 
Diet, says, Robert Woolley, of Fairfield, Mass,, 
1649 and 1653, removed soon afterwards to parts 
unknown. His whereabouts are now presumed to 
be settled. 

1 Kobert had ch, 2 John and 3 Joseph. 2 John 
had ch. 4 William, 5 Charles, 6 Benjamin and 7 
•John of Southold. 4 William had s 8 Silas b 
1746, d 1806, who had ch. 9 William, 10 Deac. 
Elias, b 1775 d 1843, and 11 John b 1777 d 1804, 
9 William had ch. John, Austin, Phebe, Abigail, 
Mary A., and Jane. 6 Benjamin had s 12 Ben- 
jamin, who had s 13 Nathan, who had s Charles N. 
7 John had w Abigail and ch. 14 John, of South- 
ampton, and 15 Tancred, of Southold. 

FRAGMENTARY NOTES 

OFOTHEB MRN FOl'SD BRCORDKU IK THE BOOKS IN THE 0»'FICE OF THF, TOWN rLKRK. 

1713 Joshua Halsey had w Martha who was only 
d of Abraham Willman, the eldest son of John W. 
He had ch. Martha, Joana, Abigail, Elizabeth, Ex- 
perience, Mary and Prudence. 

1702 John, Jonathan and Zachariah Davis, 
brothers and sons of John Davis of North Sea, 
Jonathan moved to Hopewell, Burlington Co. N. J. 
John Davis of E. Hampton d Dec 5 1798 ae 75. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 305 

Thomas Davis also of E. II. d Sept 27 1751 ae. 65. 
Catherine w of John U, d April 1 1759 ae. 36. 
John Davis of E. II. d. Aug 3 1766, ae. 90. 

1661 John and Samuel Davis, of North Sea, 
brothers. 1698 Benjamin son of Benjamin Davis, 
sells house. 

1717 Thomas Lupton, probabl)- son of Joseph 
L., has w Mary d of John Mappem, (who m. d of 
James Mappem and succeeded to his estate.) 

1705 David and Francis Shaw of North Sea, 
brothers. By list of 1698 it appears probable that 
their father's name was Thomas, and that they had 
a brother John. 

1709 Thomas Goldsmith deceased, is called great 
uncle of John Goldsmith of Southold. 

1719 John Warren or Wareing of Cold Spring, 
in town of Oyster Bay, has w Elizabeth, d of John 
White, and she appears to be his only child — they 
hrive son John Warren to whom they give all the 
p'operty which John White possessed at his death- 

1710 Richard Wood has m Hannah d of Thomas 
Eeeves, April 10 1704, and had ch. Hannah b Feb 
9 1705-6, Phebe b Oct 28 1709, James b March 13 

U71 1-12, Matthew b March 6 1715, Theophilus b 
Miy 11 1718, Abraham b Aug 14 1721, and Silas 
» Tune 16 1724. 

1652 Jonas Wood of North Sea has w Elizabeth. 
Elnathan Wood m d of 17 Stephen Topping, had 
I Silas, who had son Stephen now living in B. 
mpton. Elnathan also had bro. Silas. 
1697 Alexander Wilmot of New Haven, bought 
•-3sidence in B. Hamilton, had s Walter b 1709 
48 



306 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON. 

who giaduated at Yale in 1734. Walter studied 
for the minii^try, and was ordained pa8tor at Jamaica^ 
L. I., April 12 1738. He died 1744. 

1698 Thcmas Learning s of Christopher L., de- 
ceased, who had w Esther. 

John Pope was here only a few of the first years 
of the settlement, 

1682 Josiah Bartholomew a resident. 

1698 Joseph Moore or More has s Joseph, 

1696 Nathaniel Ruscoe a tax payer. 

1682 John Tennison, carpenter, sells h(3use and 
land. 

1698 Tamason w of Joseph Sayre. 

1699 Humphrey Hughes has w Martha. 

1699 Shamger Hand of Cape May Co. N. J. has 
son Josiah of B. Hampton. 

1729 John Penny w Juda, had sons Robert and 
Christopher, who removed to 8outh Carolina. 

Jonathan Peirce (w Abiah) died July 2 1759 ae. 
64. His s Benjamin d Aug 1 1747 ae. 19. 

Among the tax payers of 1695 are Martha wid. 
of Zerubbabel Phillips, Robert Pattin, wid, Mary 
Larison, William Rose, Walter Melvine, Benjamin 
Smith, John Earle, Henry Goring, William Barker, 
Josiah Hand, Isaac Miles, Manasseth Kempton, 
Benoni Newton, Benoni Flint, William Perkins, 
John Mitchell, John Malbey, Thomas Parvine, 
John Mowbray, Edward Petty, Samuel Barber, 
John Parker and Joseph Wickham. 

Smith Family. Some men of this name are found 
in the early records, but they never remained long. 

" Phebe relict of Nathaniel Smith, Esq," d Aug. 



FAMILY RECORDS. 307 

26 1775 ae. 73, and being buried near Dr. William 
Smith and his family, is supposed to be the mother 
of this Dr. William. The latter m Ruth d. of 
Zebulon Howell Sen., and had ch. Dr. John, Phebe, 
Mary, and a son who removed to Philadelphia. 
Mary m John Pelletreau, and had ch. as given in 
the Pelletreau Record. 

1644 John Stratton has land here. 

1645 Mr. Richard Odell has house lot of Mr. 
Cole, of Hartford, granted to him provided he stay 
3 years. 

1650 Richard Marvin has w Mary d of Wm. 
Browne deceased. 

1652 Thomas Po}>e has 3 acres granted him next 
to Mr. Stanbrough. 

1652 Wm. Barnes sells house and lot to James 
Hampton of Salem. 

1666 John Cooper sells house and lot which he 
had of Thos. Pope to James Hampton, who gives 
his estate to his son-in-law, James Mappem, who 
had two daughters but no sons. 

1675 John Laughton had bro. Josiah who had s 
John then grown. 

1696 Jonas, eldest son of Jonas Bower who had 
also s Isaac, and a d who m Wm. Terbell. 

1697 Walter Melvine and w Mary sell to Samuel 
Butler, what is now the homestead of Josiah Foster, 
bounded (then) S. and E. by Jonah Howell, N. by 
Aaron Burnett, and W. by Town Street. 

1693 Obadiah Sale sells to Samuel Whitehead. 
The former remained a few years, and then removed 
to Boston. 



308 HISTORY or SOUTHAMPTON. 

1659-60 Thomas Diment, or Diamont, or Dimon, 
buys land. 

1660 John Lum formerly of North Sea — then 
of Huntington. 

1663 Jonas Houldsworth, schoolmaster, after- 
wards of Huntington. 

1663 John Ogden of North Sea had uncle and 
cousin of same name. 

1667 John Ogden of Elizabeth, N. J. 

1665 John Olfields formerly of iiiouthampton, 
then of Jamaica. 



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! ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT. 309 

CELEBRATION OF THE 

2 2 5th anniversary 

OF THK Settlement of Southampton, December 13, 186H. 

This day was chosen as the anniversary of tlie day 
(in which h^gal ])ossession of their homes was ob- 
tained from the Indians, as may be seen from the 
date of the Indian deed given in the Appendix. 
The historical discouise was delivered by Rev. Geo. 
Rogers Howell, and the following ode written for 
the occasion, by Mrs. Maria J. R. Howell, was 
finely rendered by a large choir : 

At a meeting in the evening, appropriate addresses 
were made by H. R. Stiles, M. D., and Mr. Alden J. 
Spooner of Brooklyn, and the Rev. Messrs. W. B. 
Reeves of VVesthampton, and Epher Whitaker of 
Southold. 

Rise lip ye people with anthems of praise. 
And loud to Jehovah your thanksgivings raise : 

Fraii-e ye the might which hath built here an altar, 
And gathered a people from over the sea 5 

Sing to the mercy whose love cannot falter, 
And praise ye Jehovah the God of the free. 
Rise up ye people with anthems of praise. 
And loud to Jehovah your thanksgivings raise. 

Ages have rolled down the dark st' of time, 

Since leaving the shores of their o.wi native cllii.a. 

Seeking a home on this ocean girt Isle, 
Where free from the weight of oppression's hard rod, 

Untrammeled by rank and unfettered by guile, 
Our fathers might dwell, and in pence worship God. 
.Rise up ye people with anthems of praise, 
And loud to Jehovah your thanksgivings raise. 

Here in their Island homes they have been blest, 
An oasis fair upon ocean's broad breast ; 

The loved forms that builded the first cottage fires 
Long since have slumbered beneath the greea sod ; 

But the children impressed with the same fond desires 
Still bring to this altar their tribute to God. 
Rise up ye people with anthems of praise, 
And loud to Jehovah your thanksgivings raise. 



110 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 



APPENDIX. 



" THE DISPOSALL OF THE VESSELL," 

March lO, tH39. 

" In consideration that Edward Howell hath dis- 
bursed 151b and Edmond ffarington 10 lb, Josias 
Stanborough 5 lb, George Welbe 10 lb. Job Sayie 
5 lb, Edmond Needam 5 lb, Henry Walton 10 lb, 
and Thomas Sayre 5 lb. Itt is Agreede vpon that 
wee the forenamed vndertakers bane disposed of 
our sewerall pts of our vessell to Daniel How. In 
Consideracon 'whereof bee is to Transporte them 
soe much goods either to them, their heirs, executors 
and assignes, (If they shall Desire it) as theire 
sewerall somme or sommes of Monney shall am- 
mounte unto, and moreower to each of those psons 
Above named, or their Assignes, he shall transporte 
to each man A Person and a Tunne of goods ffree. 
But in case that any of the forenamed Persons shall 
not have occasion for the transportation of soe much 
goods as his monney shall Ammount unto, that 
then the said Daniell is to make them payment of 
the remainder of the monney by the end of two 
yeares next ensueing the date hereof, and likewise 
this vessell shall be for the use of the Plantacon, 
and that the said Daniell shall not sell this vessell 
without the consent of the mjor pt of the Company. 
And that the Vessell shall be reddy at the Towne of 
Lynne to Transporte such goods as the Afforesaid 
vndertertakers shall Appoinie, That is to say three 
tymes in the yeare. tf'urthermore if In case that 



APPENDIX. 311 

any Persons shall not have occasion to Transpoite 

any goods, that then the said Daniell is to pay them 

their somme or sommes of monney, together with 

illowance for a Tunne of goods & A pson within 

le tearni of two yeares next ensueing the (hite 

:ereof, for the full performance hereof the said 

.L>aniell How has — [three or four lines mutilated 

and illegible.] 

" ft'urthermore whereas it is expressed formerly 

that the vessell shall come to our Intended Planta- 

!>"n three tymes in the yeare, wee thought good to 

•ipress the tymes, viz : the first moneth, the fourth 

in oneth and the eighth moneth. 

" fturthermore for the rates of Persons goods and 

1 attels that if there proue any difference between 

» the vndertakers and the said Uaniell How that 

tti«m it shall be referred to two men whome they 

and he shall chuse. 

'ffurthermore for as much as Allen Bread, 
;_ omas Halsey and William Harker, Are by the 
Consent of the Company come into and pty vnder- 
takers with us, wee Edward Howell, Daniel How 
& Henry Walton have consigned three of our pts 
that is to each man a house lott, planting lott and 
farme answerable to the rest of ye vndertakers for 
their disbursements of five pounds A man to vs the 
above said vndertakers, that is to say whereas Mr. 
Howell had 3 lotts, he shall have but two & 
Daniell How for three lots shall have but two 
Henry Walton for 2 lotts shall have but one. 

" Edward Howell, 
" Daniell How, 
" Henry Walton." 



312 HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, 



"INDIAN DEED OF DEC. 13, 1640." 

"This Indenture nuule the l3th day of Decem- 
ber Anno Doni. 1G40, between Pomatuck, Mandusb, 
Mocunianto, Patlienianto, Wybennett, Wainniine^ 
wog, Heden, Wuteniexoted, Checkepuchat, the na- 
tive Inhabitants and true owners of the eastern part 
of the Long- Ishmd on the one ])art, and Mr. Jolin 
Gosmer, Edward Howell, Daniell How, Edward 
Needhani, Thomas Ilalsey, John Cooper, Thomas 
Sayre, Edward ftarring;ton, .Job Sayre, George 
Welbe, Alhn Bread, William Marker, Henry Wal- 
ton on the other part, witnesseth, that the sayd In- 
dians for due Consideration of sixteen coats already 
received, and also three score bushells of Indian corn 
to be paid vpon lawfuU demand the last of Se}>- 
tember which shall be in the yeare 1641, and fur- 
ther in consideration that the above named English 
shall defend vs the sayd Indians from the unjust 
violence of whatever Indians shall illegally assaile 
vs, doe absolutely and forever give and grant and 
by these presents doe acknowledge ourselves to 
have given & granted to the partyes above men- 
cioned without any fraude, guile, mentall Reserva- 
tion or equivocation to them their heirs and succes- 
sors forever all the lands, woods, waters, water 
courses, easemts, profits & emoluments, thence 
arising whatsoever, from the place commonly known 
by the name of the place where the Indians hayle 
over their canoes out of the North bay to the south 
side of the Island, from thence to possess all the 
lands lying eastward betweene the foresaid bound 
by water, to cut all the land pertaining to the par- 
teyes aforesaid, as also all the old ground formerly 
planted lying eastward from the first creek at ye 



APPENDIX. 313 

westermore end of Shiiinecock plaine. To have 
& to hold forever without any claime or challenge 
of the least title interest, or propriety whatsoever 
of vs the sayd Indians or our heyres or successors 
or any others by our leave, appointment, license, 
counsel or authority whatsoever, all the land bound- 
ed as is abovesaid. In full testimonie of this our 
absolute bargaine contract and grant indented and 
in full and complete ratification and establishment 
of this our act and deed of passing over all our title 
& interest in the premises with all emoluments & 
profits thereto appertaining, or in any wise belong- 
ing, from sea or land within our Limits above speci- 
fied without all guile wee have sett to our hands the 
day and yeare above sayd, 

Memorand. Before the subscribing of this present 
writing it is agreed that ye Indians above named 
shall have liberty to breake up ground for their vse 
to the westward of the creek aforementioned on the 
west side of Shinnecock plain, 

" Witnesses of the deliverie & subscribing of this 
writing, 

" Abraham Pierson, 
" Edward Stephenson, 
" Robart Terry, 
" Joseph Howe, 
" Thomas Whitehone, 
" Joseph Griffeths, 
" William Howe, 
" Manatacut, his x mark, 
" Mandush, his x mark, 
" Wybenet, his x mark, 
" Howes, his x mark, 
" Setommecoke, his x mark, 
" Mocomanto, his x mark, 
" these in the name of all the rest. 
" Recorded in ye office at New York Oct 3 1665, 
by Matthias NicoUs, Sec," 
49 



SPECIAL INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Academy 142 

Agawam l'i'> 

Andrew.^, Rev. Mr 117 

Babbit, Rev. John M 117 

Baker, Thos. of E.Hampton 202 

Barber, Samuel B06 

Barker. William 306 

Barnes, William 179 

Barnes. Joshua 96, 151 

Barnes Family 206 

Bartholomew, Josiah 306 

Beabe, Thomas & Sarah 96 

Beecher, Dr. Lyman 12.'> 

Beers, Rev. Daniel 123 

Bigelo^v, Samuel 201 

Bingham, Rev. Amos 117 

Births 200 

Bishop Family 206 

Bogart, Rev. David S 116 

Bond, Robert 180 

Bostwick, Arthur 179 

Bower, Jonas 202 

Bower's Snow Storm 195 

Bowden Family 207 

Boyer, Stephen 139 

Breed, Allen 15 

British cruelties in Rev. War 74 
" occupation in 1778. . 71 

f Browne William 29, 90 

i Burnett Family 208 

Burnett, Thomas 92 

Burying Grounds 184 

Burying Ground, Southend 184 
" " Northend 190 

" Cobb 189 

" " Mecox... 189 

Sagg.... 190 

Butler Family 209 

Campbell. John 200, 202 

Canoe Place 146 



PAGE. 

Celebration of the 225th An- 
niversary 309 

Christmas Observances. .. . 178 

Storm in 1811... 195 

Church, when organized. . . 99 

" Independent 99 

" had Ruling Elders 

early 134 

Church, when Presbyte- 
rian 99, 134 

Church Bells 138 

" Clock 138 

" Edifices 129 

" " of B. Hamp- 
ton 130 

Church Edifices of Sag H. . . 130 
" taking arms to. 131, 140 
" seating people in.. . 136 
" sweeping and mak- 
ing fire 140 

Church Service, notice of, 

by drum ~ 97 

Church, Methodist 128 

New Light 110 

Civil relations of the Town 

early 54, 87 

Clark Family 210 

Cleveland, Rev. Wm. N 125 

/ Cloave, Mary 97 

Cochrane, Major 73 

Colonies 78 

Connecticut, union with. . . .55 
Cook. Ellis— his wooing.. . . 212 

Cook Family 210 

Cooper, John 15, 67 

Cooper Family 213 

Corwith Family 216 

Courts, Quarter 88 

Cows and Goats separate. . 192 

Cow Bay, landing at 16 

Cuflfee, Rev. Paul 126 

Culver Family 217 



SPECIAL INDEX. 



315 



Customs, Early 17G 

Daggett, Rev. Herman ... . 112 

Davis Fulk 180 

Davis John. Jonatiian, «fec. 304 

Dayton, Caleb 204 

Dayton, Samuel 93 

Dayton Family 218 

Deaths 203 

Deed, Indian, of 1640 312 

Deputies to Gen. Court of 

Ct., from 1644 to 1664.. fiO 
Disposal of the Vessel .... 310 
Drum beating for Church. . 97 
Drunkenness, penalty of. . . 94 
Dutch, trouble wiih, at Cow 

Bay 16 

Dutch, Southampton under, 

in 1673 62 

Earle John 200, 202 

Erls, Rev. James and Osias 111 

Ellsworth Family 218 

Erskine Lord 72 

False Alarms 92 

Family Records 205 

Farrlngton, Edmund.. . .15, 27 

" John 18, 28 

Fast day 177 

Field, Alexander 90 

Fires, precaution against. . 97 

Fithian Family 219 

Flint. Benoni 200, 202 

Fordham, Rev. Robert .... 102 

" Family 220 

Foster, Benjamin 73 

" Christopher 15 

" Wakeman 224 

" Family 221 

Fournier Family 224 

Fowler, Christopher 93 

" Family 225 

Freemen 89 

Fuller, Rev. Mr 117 

Gelston, Rev. Samuel 107 

" Family 225 

General Court powers of. . 54 

Goldsmith, Thos. & John . . 158 

Thomas 90 

Goodall Family 226 



PACiR. 

Goring, Henry 306 

Gosmer, John 29 

Great Plains 146 

Green Family 226 

Haknlton, William 203 

Half-way Covenant 113 

Hallock Family 226 

Halsey, Daniel 197 

•' Rev. Herman 118 

" Jesse 76 

" Thomas 15 

Family 227 

Hampton, James 151 

Hand, Benjamin 231 

" David 75 

'• John 179 

" Shamger 306 

" Family 233 

Harker. William 19, 28 

Harriman, Rev. John 104 

Harris Family 234 

Hart, Rev. Joshua 117 

Haynes Family 235 

Heathcote, George 159 

Hedges, William 180 

" Family 236 

Herrick, Edward 125 

" Family 239 

Hildreth. Thomas 158 

" Family 240 

Hog astray, one in limbo. . 192 

House lots 23 

Howe, Daniel 15, 180 

Howell, Edward 15, 27 

'< John 25, 90 

" Parmenas 196 

Family 241 

Hughes, Humphrey 201 

Huntting, Rev. James M 118 125 
" Family 250 

Imprecation censured 96 

Indian deed of 1640 312 

" name oftown& Island 145 
Indians, purchase of their 

land 21 

Indians, liberty to cut flags 174 
" religious belief . . . 168 

" different tribes 163 

" trouble with, in 1653 164 



316 



SPECIAL INDEX. 



rxoF.. 

Indians burn a houvse, 1657 l(i5 

Inhabitants, list of 1644... 179 

" 1649... 29 

" " lfir)3 .. 180 

" " 1654... 31 

" " 1657 30, 181 

" " 1667... 182 

" " 1683... 46 

" " 1698... 32 

'• of North Sea 

in 1668 32 

Inhabitants of North Sea 

in 1687 32 

Intemperate drinking fined. 96 
" language cen- 
sured 96 

Jagger Family 251 

James, Rev. Thomas 

Jennings Family 253 

Jessup Family 254 

Jones, Edward 89 

Jones Family 256 

Kelly, John 195 

Kempton, Manasseh 204 

Kennedy, Rev. David 125 

Kertland, Efiilip 15, 18 

" Nathaniel 18 

Lacy, Edward 

Land allotted 92 

Larrison, John 202 

Laughton, John 202 

" his bro. Josiah . . 307 

Learning, Thomas 306 

License Law 94 

Little Plains 146 

Lovelace, Gov., visit to 

Southampton 193 

Ludlow Family 256 

Lum, John 31 

Lupton Thomas 303 

Lupton Family 257 

Lying punished 94 

Mackie Family 258 

Magistrates, duties of 87 

Manhasset. arrival at 16 

Mappem, James 151 

John 305 



PAGE. 

Marriages 201 

Marshall Family 258 

McCorkell Family 258 

Melvine, Walter 200 

Merwin, Robert 93 

Methodist Society 128 

Mills, Rev. Mr Ill 

Mitchell Family 259 

Money Vessel 196 

Monihs, Roman names 

dropped 176 

Moore, John 179 

Moore or More, Joseph. . . . 306 

Morehouse Family 259 

Morgan, Rev. J. J. A 124 

Mowbray John 35 

Multurd, John 179 

William 58, 179 

Needham. Edmund 27 

Newell, Thomas 28 

Newton Benoni 203 

New light movement in B.H. 110 

North Sea. settlement of. 26, 27 

" "Inhabitants, 1688 32 

1687 32 

Oath of fidelity to the Dutch 

in 1673 66 

Odell. Richard 28, 89 

Ogden.John 26, 90, 158 

Old fields, John 28 

Old Town 22 

Ox pasture 148 

Parker, John 260 i 

Family 260 ' 

Parsonage The 132 

for B. Hampton. 133 

Parsons Family 260 , 

Par vine, Thomas 34 ' J 

Palton, Robert 203 

Pelletreau Family 260 

Perkins William 306 

Petty, Edward 306 

Phillips, Martha 306 

Pierson, Rev. Abraham.. . . 100 

'• Lemuel 74 

Family 263 

Pigs trespassing 192 

Pompey 77 



SPECIAL INDEX. 



317 



PAGE. 

Pope, John 306 

Post Family 266 

Presbytery of L. I. organized 99 

Proprietor's Rights 24 

Proud Family 267 

Quogue Purchase 22 

Raynor Family 268 

Thurston 90 

Reed Thomas 201 

Reeves Family 269 

, Residences, Early 148 

in 1864.. 148 to 161 

Revolutionary War 69 

Robinson, Thomas 93 

Rogers, William 90 

" Family 269 

Rose, Robert 179 

'• Family 273 

Ruscoe, Nathaniel 200 

Sabbath, when it began. . . 177 
Safety of town provided for 9 1 

Sale, Obadiah 158, ir)9 

Sagg 26, 31, 145 

Sag Harbor 130 

Salary of Minister, how 

raised 131 

Sandford Family 275 

Sayre, Job 18, 27 

" Thomas 27, 96 

" Family 276 

Schools 141 

Scott Family 279 

Selling land, restricted. .. . 93 

September Gale, 1815 196 

Settlement, the 20 

Settlers, early, where from . 14 
" previous, traces of. 15, 18 

" names of 28 

" character of 49 

Shaw, Rev. Peter H 121 

" Edmund 96 

" Thomas 305 

" David & Francis. .. . 305 

Shinnecock Hills sold in 1861 174 

" " lease of 1703 172 

Sleeping on watch 90 

Smith, Richard 32, 90 

Soldier's in Slaveholders' 

50 



PAGE. 

Rebellion 84 

Southold, when settled 20 

Squires Family 280 

Stansbrough, Josiah. 15, 27, 89 

" Family 280 

Stealing of Fruit 97 

Stephens Family 281 

Stocks provided 96 

Stratton, Richard 179 

Strong, Rev. Mr HI 

Talmadge, Thomas, Sr. & Jr 179 

Family 282 

" Roljcrt 179 

Taylor, Rev. John 105 

" " Joseph 104 

Tennison, John 158 

Terry, Thomas 28 

Topping, Edward 74 

" Thomas 90 

" Family 283 

" Purchase 22 

Townsmen 88 

Training 90 

Travally, Thomas 98 

Underwriters, the original . 27 
" increased to 20 28 

Various orders of Gen. C'rt 96 
Voting enforced 94 

Wakeman, Rev. Jabez 203 

Walton, Henry 27 

Wards, town divided into 91, 179 
Warren or Waring, John. . . 305 

Washington, Gen 77 

Watch and Ward 90 

Welbye, George .... 15, 18, 27 

Wells, Richard 15 

Whales drifted up 179, 183 

Whaling Squadrons, 1644... 179 
" " 1653... 180 

" " 1657... 181 

" " 1667... 182 

Wheeler, John 201 

White, Rev. Sylvanus 108 

" •' " De- 
scendants of 289 

White John 15,89, 96 

" Family 286 



318 



SPECIAL INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Whitehead, Samuel 202 

Whiting. Rev. Joseph 106 

Wick Family 302 

Wiekham, Joseph 306 

Williams, Rev. Joshua. ... Ill 

Willmot, Alexander 305 

Wilson, Rev. Hugh N., D.D 123 

WUlman, Isaac 96 

" Family 302 



PAGE. 

Witchcraft 98 

Wolves 191 

Wood, Richard 305 

Woodhull, Richard 202 

Woodruff Family 303 

WooUey Family 304 

Year when commenced 176 

Yule log 178 



TYPOGRAPHICAL CORRECTIONS. 

(^^ The numbers prefixed to " p " and " 1 " denote respectively the page 
and line where the misprint may be found. The corrected wurd only is given, 
and the corrections italicised.) 

P. 17, 1. 16, Tieuhoi'cn ; p. 24, 1. 19, Gov. Doragan, so also, p. 25, 1. 22, and p. 
26, 1. 7 ; p. 26, 1. 15, were ; p. 28, 1. 7, setdement ; 1. 10, Bosttuick ; 1. 11 Cory ; 1. 
17, iVorris; p. 29, 1. 24, Ua;-rett ; 1. 33, literatim; p. 31, 1. 7, Peregrine; 1. 3, 
Stmmy ; p. 32, 1. 9, 7/alsey ; p. 33, 21, Ichabod ; p. 34, 1. 21, Carmth ; p. .S5, 1. 
10, Malt6y ; p. 36, 1. 5. Isaa ; 1, 12, HMU ; p. 39, 1. 20, Ha.na.h ; p. 40, 1. 29. ffield ; 
p. 44, 1. 19, Chice ; p. 48, 1. 0, Mappewi ; 1. 10, Hi/dreth ; p. 51, 1. 1, " or the 
Connecticut" &c. ; 1. 28, insert "of" before "one of their number," ; p. 55, 1. 
14, for 1864 read 1644 ; p. 58, 1 20, agrei'cd ; p. 66, 1. 31, Van Tromp ; p. 70, 1. 14, 
exposed; p. 78, 1. 30, Br<i«foid ; p. 83,1.32, T'ikings of the North p. 85, 1. 4, 
for 2nd N. Y. Cav., read 81st N. Y. Vol. ; 1. 14, Larry p. 89, 1. 18, Hlegible ; 
d. 97, 1. 7, severely ; p. 100, 1. 16, Mr. Mcwish ; p. 103, 1. 3, l7Hps ; 1 32, insert 
i?ei'. before Hugh N. W ilson ; p. 100, 1. 23 & 24, should read " in the rear of the 
residence of the late Capt. James Post ; p. 110, 1. 14, died otf; p. 139, 1. 14, for 
54 lbs. read, 64 lbs. ; p. 141, 1. 18, fur 1794 read 1694 ; p. 145, 1 8, then ; p. 161, 1. 
20, lit'es Mr. Age ; 1. 31, Boioden ; p. 162, 1. 4, lives ; p. 163, 1. 14, Peaconics ; p. 
164, 1. 30, insert iwtY/i between " allied " and " emissaries " ; p. 168, 1. 29, chron- 
icler, p. 171, 1. 17, Sisyphus, Taratalus ; p. 173, 1. 6, Pomj/uama ; p. 177, 1. 30, 
infer ; p. 178, 1. 4, Yule ; p. 179, 1. 25, Thomas Halsey, Sen'r ; p. 181, 1. 27, Isak 
"Willman ; p. 187, 1. 2, for 1706, read 1716 ; p. 190, 1. 4, iamuel ; p. 198, 1. 32, for 
"words" read " worWs " ; p. 199, 1. 28, mind'i repose; p. 207, 1 5, for "71 
John who had &c." read " 17 John had son 19 John who had &c " ; p. 213, 1. 

31, for 1836 read 1636 : p. 216, 1. 12, Oxboio ; p. 221, 1. 26, for "taboshed" read 
cabosse^Z or ; p. 225, 1. 5, J. L. Sanford ; p. 227, 1. 4, for " 32 William" read s 2 
William ; p. 229, 1. 8, for 1787 read 1785 ; 1. 12, for I860 read 1810; p. 236, 1. 15, 
d 1794 ; p. 241, 1 15, James M. (who hadch. &c.,)l. 18, read "64 J. Halsey, [who 
had ch. Charles, George and Wallace] and 65 Alfred" ; p. 242, 1. 4, nauseam; 
p. 249, 1. 17, 1642 belongs to next sentenco, beginning " 65 Abraham " &c ; 
p. 250, 1.13, for 1692 read 1C82 ; p. 255, 1. 5, Schellinger ; 1. 22,56 ApoUos ; 
p. 274, 1. 6, Rictard ; 1. 27, Oct. 10 ; p. 275, 1. 23,t hen grown ; 1 25, for 1631 
read 1756 ; p. 285, 1. 2, for 1765 read 1675 ; p. 287, 1. 31, for " Elnathan and 
others" read Elwyn, John, Laura and William ; p. 289, 1. 5, Sarah ; p. 290, 1. 

32, Sylvanus ; p. 303, 1. 4, read " did not remain " ; p. 305, 1. 9, for Mappem read 
Hampton; 1. 16, for 1719 read 1710; p. 309, 1. 3, for December 13, 1866, read 
December 13, 1865. 

^g°" The words ut, uh, uth, uch, uthout, uhat, uas, uay, nou, uould, and 
Buare should be printed wt, wh, wth, &o. 



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TsAi A. TTxrcTj gib:.. 

Mrs. Capt.V. Hallock. Thos. Mayo, Thos E. Keeve. A.A.Robinson. 

CTJTCHOa-XJE. 

Mrs. Capt. H. Terry, Albert Gould, John Gildcrsleeve. 

GHlEE3Sri=OIl.T, 

Capt. T. Richmond, Jay Young. 

oii.iE3sra?. 

J. B. Young, H. A Young. 

Eii,-A.iTK:i:jinsrvix.t.E. 

Deac G. W. Hallock. l<ranklinville Church, Elijah Hallock. 

IsTOH-THVIIjIjE. 

Halsoy Benjamin, N. W. Downs, Hallock Lnce. Minor Wells, 
D. C. Terry, John H. Wells, Joseph Wells, M. P. Wells, 

C. H. Reeve, Daniel Hudson, Salem Wells, D. W. Hallock. 

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We will introduce these Instruments in Southampton, and upon 
the South Branch of the Island, at nearly cost price, and at a large 
discount to the purchaser. Address, 

(Residence,) 186 Monroe St., Brooklyn. 



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